Environmental Land Management Schemes
Commons · Question 121049 · Tabled 16 Mar 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 25 Mar 2026
Question
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...