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Sustainable Farming Incentive

Commons · Question 38211 · Tabled 13 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 8 Apr 2025

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Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department's objectives on support for sustainable farming have changed, in the context of the closure of the SFI scheme.

Answer

Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 8 Apr 2025

We have closed Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) for new applications because the current SFI budget has been successfully allocated, with large-scale uptake of the scheme and 37,000 live SFI agreements delivering towards our environmental targets. This...