Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 21276
Agriculture: Subsidies
Tabled: 19 December 2024
Answered: 7 January 2025
Question
Tim Farron
Liberal Democrat — Westmorland and Lonsdale
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to provide top-up payments to farmers to compensate for the loss of direct payments.
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerThe Government announced the reductions it intends to apply to delinked payments for 2025. The Government is accelerating the end of the era of payouts to large and wealthy landowners simply for owning land. The fastest reductions in subsidies will be to ...
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