<P> Taxation in the United Kingdom may involve payments to at least two different levels of government: local government and central government (HM Revenue & Customs). Local government is financed by grants from central government funds, business rates, council tax, and, increasingly, fees and charges such as those from on - street parking . Central government revenues are mainly from income tax, national insurance contributions, value added tax, corporation tax and fuel duty . </P> <P> Agriculture in the UK is intensive, highly mechanised, and efficient by European standards, producing about 60% of food needs, with less than 1.6% of the labour force (535,000 workers). It contributes around 0.6% of British national value added . Around two - thirds of the production is devoted to livestock, one - third to arable crops . Agriculture is subsidised by the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy . </P> <P> The UK retains a significant, though reduced, fishing industry . Its fleets, based in towns such as Kingston upon Hull, Grimsby, Fleetwood, Newlyn, Great Yarmouth, Peterhead, Fraserburgh, and Lowestoft, bring home fish ranging from sole to herring . </P> <P> The Blue Book 2013 reports that "Agriculture" added gross value of £ 9,438 million to the UK economy in 2011 . </P>

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