Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 121049

Environmental Land Management Schemes

Tabled: 16 March 2026
Answered: 25 March 2026

Question

Pippa Heylings

Liberal DemocratSouth Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of Environmental Land Management schemes in supporting nature-friendly farming and species recovery.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
Environmental Land Management schemes have seen high levels of uptake by the farming sector with 50,000 farm businesses and over half of all agricultural land involved in schemes. Detailed uptake of each action in schemes is published here Agri-environmen...

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