Question follow-through · 53792
Farms: Tenants
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to encourage landowners to offer longer-term leases to tenant farmers.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 20 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 May 2025
- Answer
- 12 Jun 2025 · 23 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to encourage landowners to offer longer-term leases to tenant farmers.
22 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Department recognises the benefits that longer-term tenancy agreements can provide for both tenants and landlords. The joint Defra-Industry Farm Tenancy Forum is working on guidance and best practice to encourage more landlords and tenants to enter in...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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