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Environmental Land Management Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to enable agri-environment agreement applications before the current agreements expire.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
10 Sept 2024
Target answer date
12 Sept 2024
Answer
25 Sept 2024 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Sept 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to enable agri-environment agreement applications before the current agreements expire.

  2. 12 Sept 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 25 Sept 2024

    Answer published

    Farmers with existing agri-agreements can apply to enter the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) if the activities under each scheme are compatible and they will not be paid twice for a similar activity on the same area of land at the same time. We are fu...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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