Question follow-through · 37907
Farmers: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how he plans to support upland farmers who were intending to move onto the Sustainable Farming Incentive following the closure of the scheme.
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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, how he plans to support upland farmers who were intending to move onto the Sustainable Farming Incentive following the closure of the scheme.
14 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Mar 2025
Answer published
We fully recognise the importance of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) for upland farmers – and we strongly want the scheme to be available to them as we move forward. We have closed SFI for new applications because the current SFI budget has been s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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