Oral Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
“What assessment she has made of the potential impact of her policies on farming communities.”
Tabled: 11 December 2025Answered: 18 December 2025
Asked by
Matt Vickers
Conservative — Stockton West
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Food Security and Rural Affairs (Dame Angela Eagle)
While the Conservatives failed to spend £300 million of the farming budget, we are backing farmers with the largest nature-friendly budget in history, and 50,000 farm businesses and half of all farmed land are now managed under our schemes. We have today published our initial response to Baroness Batters’ recommendations on farm profitability, and we are developing our 25-year farming road map.