Grouse Moors: Subsidies
Commons · Question 111212 · Tabled 5 Feb 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 11 Feb 2026
Question
Asked by Charlotte Nichols
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to reverse the 2014 increase in subsidy for grouse moorlands.
Answer
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 11 Feb 2026
The payment increase announced in 2014 was an uplift in per hectare payments for moorland under the area-based Basic Payment Scheme, which has since closed in England. Defra is targeting investments away from the old subsidy schemes towards improving Envi...