Question follow-through · 42383

Farms: Domestic Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farms the Minister of State for Food Security and Rural Affairs visited in the period (a) before and (b) after the Autumn Budget 2024.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 28 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 2 Apr 2025
Answer: 16 May 2025 · 49 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

28 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farms the Minister of State for Food Security and Rural Affairs visited in the period (a) before and (b) after the Autumn Budget 2024.
2 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 May 2025
Answer published
Ministers visit farms and other food production premises regularly and have met with farming stakeholders nearly every week since entering Government.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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