Farmers: Government Assistance
Commons · Question 37907 · Tabled 12 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Martin Wrigley
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how he plans to support upland farmers who were intending to move onto the Sustainable Farming Incentive following the closure of the scheme.
Answer
Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 25 Mar 2025
We fully recognise the importance of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) for upland farmers - and we strongly want the scheme to be available to them as we move forward. We have closed SFI for new applications because the current SFI budget has been s...