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Environmental Land Management Schemes

Commons · Question 121049 · Tabled 16 Mar 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 25 Mar 2026

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Asked by Pippa Heylings

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of Environmental Land Management schemes in supporting nature-friendly farming and species recovery.

Answer

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 25 Mar 2026

Environmental Land Management schemes have seen high levels of uptake by the farming sector with 50,000 farm businesses and over half of all agricultural land involved in schemes. Detailed uptake of each action in schemes is published here Agri-environmen...