Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 5247

Countryside Stewardship Scheme and Sustainable Farming Incentive

Tabled: 10 September 2024
Answered: 25 September 2024

Question

Rebecca Smith

ConservativeSouth West Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help ensure that people farming on commons can benefit from (a) the Sustainable Farming Incentive and (b) Countryside Stewardship.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
We want people farming on commons land to benefit from both the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and Countryside Stewardship and are working to make applications to the SFI service available to commoners and other shared graziers. We have asked farmers...

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