Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 20008

Agriculture: Floods

Tabled: 13 December 2024
Answered: 2 January 2025

Question

Tim Farron

Liberal DemocratWestmorland and Lonsdale

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support farmers with managing flooding in winter 2024-25.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
The Farming Recovery Fund was set up to support farmers affected by unprecedented extreme wet weather last winter (October 2023 to March 2024). Through these one-off recovery payments, £57.5 million has now been paid to over 12,700 farm businesses to help...

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