Question follow-through · 19630
Agriculture: Subsidies
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of (a) grants and (b) subsidies available to farmers for (i) adopting new technologies and (ii) improving farm infrastructure.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 11 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 20 Dec 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of (a) grants and (b) subsidies available to farmers for (i) adopting new technologies and (ii) improving farm infrastructure.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Dec 2024
Answer published
Within the Farming Innovation Programme Defra has supported over 260 projects with over £130 million of Government investment awarded in contracts. Within the Farming Investment Fund schemes Defra has paid out over £164 million to date in capital grants t...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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