Question follow-through · 77928
Sustainable Farming Incentive
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support is in place for farmers who are unable to access SFI agreements between the scheme’s closure in March 2025 and the planned re opening in mid 2026.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 16 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 16 Oct 2025 · 30 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support is in place for farmers who are unable to access SFI agreements between the scheme’s closure in March 2025 and the planned re opening in mid 2026.
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Oct 2025
Answer published
There are currently record numbers of farmers taking part in farming schemes such as the Sustainable Farming Incentive. As of April 2025, these schemes supported 885,000 hectares of arable land being farmed without insecticides; 330,000 hectares of low in...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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