Sustainable Farming Incentive
Commons · Question 43886 · Tabled 3 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Wendy Morton
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2025 to Question 38604 on Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of farmers
Answer
Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 10 Apr 2025
This Government inherited an uncapped scheme aimed at mass participation of farm businesses, despite a finite farming budget. In order to ensure we acted in a financially responsible way we took the decision to stop accepting new Sustainable Farming Incen...