Question follow-through · 90232
Farms: Local Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has issued guidance on council farms.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 12 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 20 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has issued guidance on council farms.
17 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Nov 2025
Answer published
Defra recently published the 74th annual report to Parliament on smallholdings in England. The report indicated that council farms continue to play an important role in the tenanted agricultural sector across England.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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