Question follow-through · 38184
Farmers: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to open environmental schemes to increased numbers of farmers.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 13 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 25 Mar 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to open environmental schemes to increased numbers of farmers.
17 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Mar 2025
Answer published
This Government has secured the largest budget for sustainable food production in our country’s history, with £5 billion being spent to support farmers over a two-year period. Defra has closed the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) for the submission of ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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