Question follow-through · 34182
Agriculture: Subsidies
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to ensure that agricultural environmental payments will be adjusted in line with inflation.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 26 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 5 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
26 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to ensure that agricultural environmental payments will be adjusted in line with inflation.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Mar 2025
Answer published
Prices in Environmental Land Management schemes have increased three times in the last three years to reflect inflation and pay a fairer price for action. In 2022 and 2023 prices in Countryside Stewardship increased and at the National Farmers’ Union Conf...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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