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.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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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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  1. 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.

  2. 5 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 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...

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