Question follow-through · 12153
Agriculture: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether data collected through his Department’s farm practices survey informs the assessment of progress on meeting legally binding targets set out in the Environment Act 2021.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 31 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 5 Nov 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
31 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether data collected through his Department’s farm practices survey informs the assessment of progress on meeting legally binding targets set out in the Environment Act 2021.
4 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Nov 2024
Answer published
Reporting against statutory targets is being developed primarily through data on activities that farmers have volunteered to do as part of schemes. Defra uses survey data, including the results from the farm practices survey, to build assumptions and unde...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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