Question follow-through · 66577
Agriculture: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to encourage more young people into farming.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 10 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to encourage more young people into farming.
14 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jul 2025
Answer published
Encouraging more young people into farming and land-based careers is vital to ensure a skilled workforce is in place and the longer-term viability of the sector. Defra works closely with The Institute for Agriculture and Horticulture (TIAH) which is encou...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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