Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 110916

Countryside Stewardship Scheme and Landscape Recovery Scheme

Tabled: 4 February 2026

Answered: 12 February 2026

Named Day

Question

Josh Newbury

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of funding under the (a) Landscape Recovery and (b) Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier scheme has been received by farms smaller than 200 acres.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

The Landscape Recovery (LR) scheme does not directly award funding to participant land managers. Rather, the scheme awards funding to Projects, when in their development phase, and to a Single Legal Entity when they are in their implementation phase. This...

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