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Sustainable Farming Incentive

Commons · Question 9704 · Tabled 15 Jun 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 22 Jun 2026

Question

Asked by James Wild

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of limiting farm businesses to a single Sustainable Farming Incentive agreement on farm-level participation and flexibil

Answer

Answered by Stephen Morgan, 22 Jun 2026

A quarter of SFI money goes to just 4% of farms. The Government is making improvements to the offer to ensure more farmers can access funding. The reformed SFI26 offer will be more focussed, more transparent and fairer so that as many farmers as possible ...