Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 111212
Grouse Moors: Subsidies
Tabled: 5 February 2026
Answered: 11 February 2026
Question
Charlotte Nichols
Labour — Warrington North
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to reverse the 2014 increase in subsidy for grouse moorlands.
Answer
Dame Angela EagleThe payment increase announced in 2014 was an uplift in per hectare payments for moorland under the area-based Basic Payment Scheme, which has since closed in England. Defra is targeting investments away from the old subsidy schemes towards improving Envi...
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