Question follow-through · 20403
Agriculture: Subsidies
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of proposed changes to the delinked basic payment scheme on the profitability of farming businesses.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 23 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of proposed changes to the delinked basic payment scheme on the profitability of farming businesses.
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Government has committed to support farmers through a farming budget of £5 billion over two years, including £2.4 billion in 2025/26. Accelerating the phase out of Direct Payments will allow us to focus more of this funding on Environmental Land Manag...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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