Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 39437
Sustainable Farming Incentive: Environmental Land Management Schemes
Tabled: 19 March 2025
Answered: 24 March 2025
Question
Wendy Morton
Conservative — Aldridge-Brownhills
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the closure of the Sustainable Farming Incentive on the effectiveness of the Environmental Land Management scheme.
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerDefra has closed the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) for the submission of new applications, but existing agreements will continue. We now have over 37,000 live SFI agreements. Every penny in all existing SFI agreements will be paid to farmers, and ou...
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