Question follow-through · 28192
Environmental Land Management Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications his Department has received for the (a) Sustainable Farming Incentive and (b) Environmental Land Management scheme; and what the status is of each application.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 3 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 24 Feb 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications his Department has received for the (a) Sustainable Farming Incentive and (b) Environmental Land Management scheme; and what the status is of each application.
5 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Feb 2025
Answer published
(a)The Sustainable Farming Incentive has a rolling application window and as of 04 February the RPA has received 46,765 applications of which 42,497 agreements have been offered and 35,949 accepted. ** Farmers can have more than one agreement in SFI schem...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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