Sustainable Farming Incentive: Environmental Land Management Schemes
Commons · Question 39437 · Tabled 19 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Wendy Morton
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the closure of the Sustainable Farming Incentive on the effectiveness of the Environmental Land Management scheme.
Answer
Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 24 Mar 2025
Defra has closed the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) for the submission of new applications, but existing agreements will continue. We now have over 37,000 live SFI agreements. Every penny in all existing SFI agreements will be paid to farmers, and ou...