Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 72093

Sustainable Farming Incentive: Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 4 September 2025

Question

Mr Angus MacDonald

Liberal DemocratInverness, Skye and West Ross-shire

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 Scheme on the natural environment in Inverness, Skye and West Ross-s

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Agriculture is a devolved policy area, and the Sustainable Farming Incentive is an England-only scheme. There is therefore no impact on farmers in the Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire constituency.