Question follow-through · 37841
Sustainable Farming Incentive
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons his Department decided to (a) announce the closure of and (b) close the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme to new applicants on the same day.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 12 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 25 Mar 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons his Department decided to (a) announce the closure of and (b) close the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme to new applicants on the same day.
14 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Mar 2025
Answer published
This Government has committed £5 billion over 2 years to sustainable farming and nature recovery and we’ve worked hard to get as many farmers into environmental land management schemes as possible. The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) now has more than...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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