Question follow-through · 20071
Countryside Stewardship Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he has taken to ensure timely payments from the Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 13 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 23 Dec 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he has taken to ensure timely payments from the Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier.
17 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) began making payments to Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier agreement holders at the start of the December 2024, along with those in Countryside Stewardship Mid-Tier and Environmental Stewardship, with around £330 million ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Pesticides: Waste Disposal
22 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of placing a levy for the cost of disposing pesticide products.
Hedges and Ditches: Grants
29 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will reinstate capital grants for hedgerow work.
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29 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made on the potential impact of hedgerow grants on the environmental land management scheme budget.
Hedges and Ditches: Conservation
29 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the pause on new applications for grants on hedge restoration and planting.
Environmental Land Management Schemes
29 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the pause on new applications for grants on rural employment.
Environmental Land Management Schemes
29 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the pause on new applications for grants on tree nurseries.
Countryside Stewardship Scheme
29 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the freeze on applications for grants on farmer confidence in Countryside Stewardship.
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29 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the freeze on applications for grants on farmer confidence in the Sustainable Farming Incentive.
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29 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the freeze on hedgerow grants on employment in the hedgerow business this winter.
Hedges and Ditches: Countryside Stewardship Scheme
29 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with farmers on the freeze on applications for hedgerow grants.