Question follow-through · 901884
Agriculture: Grants
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of temporarily closing the capital grants scheme for new applications on farmers.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
12 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 temporarily closing the capital grants scheme for new applications on farmers.
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
We have allocated the largest ever budget for sustainable food production through the farming budget. In the first week of December, we paid £343 million into the rural economy, benefiting more than 31,000 farmers. After unprecedented demand, parts of the...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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River Lymington: Tides
13 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information the Environment Agency has received from the Oceanographic School at Southampton University on hightide levels at Lymington harbour.
Countryside Stewardship Scheme: New Forest
13 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to replace the higher level stewardship provision to commoners in the New Forest.
New Forest
13 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will (a) review and (b) update the Ministers mandate for the New Forest.
Grasslands: Conservation
3 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will add irreplaceable meadows to the list of irreplaceable habitats.
Environmental Land Management Schemes: Common Land
15 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will instruct the Rural Payments Agency to implement a manual system to process applications for ELM schemes on Common land.