Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 126801

Sustainable Farming Incentive: Rivers

Tabled: 13 April 2026
Answered: 20 April 2026
Named Day

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 potential merits of introducing a dedicated chalk stream action in the Sustainable Farm Incentive.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
The Sustainable Farming Incentive already contains a wide range of actions to protect and enhance the watercourses of England. These include a range of buffer and habitat strips that can be used adjacent to water bodies and further actions for low intensi...

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