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Agriculture: Floods

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support farmers with managing flooding in winter 2024-25.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
13 Dec 2024
Target answer date
17 Dec 2024
Answer
2 Jan 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support farmers with managing flooding in winter 2024-25.

  2. 17 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The Farming Recovery Fund was set up to support farmers affected by unprecedented extreme wet weather last winter (October 2023 to March 2024). Through these one-off recovery payments, £57.5 million has now been paid to over 12,700 farm businesses to help...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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