Countryside Stewardship Scheme and Sustainable Farming Incentive
Commons · Question 5247 · Tabled 10 Sep 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 25 Sep 2024
Question
Asked by Rebecca Smith
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help ensure that people farming on commons can benefit from (a) the Sustainable Farming Incentive and (b) Countryside Stewardship.
Answer
Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 25 Sep 2024
We want people farming on commons land to benefit from both the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and Countryside Stewardship and are working to make applications to the SFI service available to commoners and other shared graziers. We have asked farmers...