Agriculture: Subsidies
Commons · Question 34182 · Tabled 26 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Edward Morello
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to ensure that agricultural environmental payments will be adjusted in line with inflation.
Answer
Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 5 Mar 2025
Prices in Environmental Land Management schemes have increased three times in the last three years to reflect inflation and pay a fairer price for action. In 2022 and 2023 prices in Countryside Stewardship increased and at the National Farmers’ Union Conf...