Question follow-through · 14718
Hill Farming: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of current payment schemes for upland farmers.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 18 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 20 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 25 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of current payment schemes for upland farmers.
20 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Nov 2024
Answer published
Upland farmers have a key role to play in the future for delivering sustainable food production and our environmental targets. The Government has committed to support farmers through a farming budget of £5 billion over two years, including £2.4 billion in...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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