Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 81758

Deer: Conservation

Tabled: 13 October 2025
Answered: 21 October 2025

Question

Sarah Bool

ConservativeSouth Northamptonshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to incentivise deer management by local landowners at a landscape scale.

Answer

Mary Creagh
Defra provides a wide range of support to help landowners and managers tackle deer impacts on woodlands. This includes grants for managing their impacts and for capital items, as well as funding of relevant projects, including those that facilitate landsc...

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