Question follow-through · 49513
Agriculture: Subsidies
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to adapt farming subsidy schemes to encourage farmers to (a) house farmed animals in woodlands and (b) plant woodlands in permanent pasture.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 30 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 13 May 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to adapt farming subsidy schemes to encourage farmers to (a) house farmed animals in woodlands and (b) plant woodlands in permanent pasture.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 May 2025
Answer published
Our in-field agroforestry offers under the Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes include support for establishing and maintaining silvopastoral systems, where trees are planted in pasture to realise their multiple benefits such as enhanced animal we...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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