Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 90232
Farms: Local Government
Tabled: 12 November 2025
Answered: 20 November 2025
Question
Sir James Cleverly
Conservative — Braintree
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has issued guidance on council farms.
Answer
Dame Angela EagleDefra recently published the 74th annual report to Parliament on smallholdings in England. The report indicated that council farms continue to play an important role in the tenanted agricultural sector across England.