Sustainable Farming Incentive
Commons · Question 39244 · Tabled 18 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Aphra Brandreth
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding has been allocated to the Sustainable Farming Incentive for the 2025-26 financial year; and for what reason new applications have been paused since 11 March 2025.
Answer
Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 28 Mar 2025
The farming blog published on Wednesday 12 March set out Defra’s spend over the next two years (24/25 and 25/26). These are not ring-fenced figures and have the potential to change. This showed that as of 11 March, £1.05 billion had been paid to farmers o...