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Sustainable Farming Incentive: Educational Visits

Commons · Question 36816 · Tabled 10 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 17 Mar 2025

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Asked by Simon Opher

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to include (a) educational access payments within the Sustainable Farming Incentive and (b) extend those payments to (i) social prescribing programmes and (ii) other a

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Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 17 Mar 2025

We are developing educational access as a new 3-year capital item, which we expect to be available later in 2025. This will be a stand-alone capital item, though applicants must have an agri-environment or woodland agreement with management actions. Whils...