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Agriculture: Finance

Commons · Question 53182 · Tabled 19 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 9 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Alicia Kearns

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the eligibility criteria of the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund to include all poultry.

Answer

Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 9 Jun 2025

Grants for Animal Health and Welfare items remain focused on the most commonly farmed species: pigs, dairy cows, beef cattle, laying chickens, broiler chickens and sheep. No new assessment was conducted on expanding eligibility to additional species for t...