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Sustainable Farming Incentive

Commons · Question 39264 · Tabled 18 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 2 Apr 2025

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Asked by Aphra Brandreth

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the amount of notice the National Farmers' Union was provided with before his Department announced that the Sustainable Farming Incentive

Answer

Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 2 Apr 2025

As with all demand-led schemes there comes a point when they are fully-subscribed. We ensured farmers and their representative bodies were made aware when that happened.