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Question follow-through · 38603

Sustainable Farming Incentive

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the closure of the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme on farmers who had planned to transition to the new land mana

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
17 Mar 2025
Target answer date
19 Mar 2025
Answer
25 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the closure of the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme on farmers who had planned to transition to the new land mana

  2. 19 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 25 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    On 11 March 2025, we published forecasts which suggest that Average Farm Business Income has risen in 2024/25 across all farm types with the exception of cereal farms. This follows a fall in income for most farm types in 2023/24, after some exceptional hi...

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Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Sustainable Farming Incentive: Environmental Land Management Schemes

19 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the closure of the Sustainable Farming Incentive on the effectiveness of the Environmental Land Management scheme.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Ocean Conference

19 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has for participation at the 2025 UN Ocean Conference by (a) officials and (b) Ministers.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Food Supply

24 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help ensure UK food security.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Food Supply: Carbon Emissions

31 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Government's net zero policies on food supply from British producers.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Packaging: Recycling

31 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the relative potential impact of the implementation of the extended producer responsibility scheme on the (a) glass and (b) plastic industries.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Packaging: Recycling

31 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of ensuring the extended producer responsibility (EPR) scheme meets the needs of industry.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Litter: Community Development

1 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps is he taking to support participation in the Great British Spring Clean initiative.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Fly Tipping and Litter

1 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support local government to help tackle flytipping and littering.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Waste Disposal: Birmingham

1 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Birmingham bin strikes on neighbouring constituencies.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Sustainable Farming Incentive

3 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2025 to Question 38604 on Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of farmers

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Food Supply

8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2025 onto Question 40498 on Food Supply, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of food security in UK; and what steps he is taking to increase

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Fly-tipping and Litter: Fixed Penalties

8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of adding penalty points to the driver’s licences of people convicted of (a) fly-tipping and (b) littering from a vehicle.