Agriculture: Subsidies
Commons · Question 47935 · Tabled 24 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 12 May 2025
Question
Asked by Martin Wrigley
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to adapt existing farming subsidy schemes to incentivise the (a) housing of all farmed animals in woodland and (b) planting of woodland in permanent pasture to im
Answer
Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 12 May 2025
Our in-field agroforestry offers under the Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes include support for establishing and maintaining silvopastoral systems, where trees are planted in pasture to realise their multiple benefits such as enhanced animal we...