Question follow-through · 47934
Grazing Land: Biodiversity and Carbon Capture and Storage
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of (a) silvopastoral and (b) holistic planned grazing practices to enhance (i) carbon sequestration and (ii) biodiversity.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 24 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 12 May 2025 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of (a) silvopastoral and (b) holistic planned grazing practices to enhance (i) carbon sequestration and (ii) biodiversity.
28 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 May 2025
Answer published
All prospective Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme offers were assessed for their potential impact against a range of environmental and cultural services, including carbon sequestration and biodiversity indicators. The assessment was based on a co...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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