Question follow-through · 98972
Agriculture: Subsidies
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Basic Payment Scheme 2023 claimants have accessed support through the Farming Resilience Fund since October 2021.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 6 Jan 2026 · 27 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Basic Payment Scheme 2023 claimants have accessed support through the Farming Resilience Fund since October 2021.
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Jan 2026
Answer published
We do not hold the information in a form that allows us to identify Basic Payment Scheme 2023 claimants specifically. However, the scale-up phase of the Farming Resilience Fund ran from late 2022 to early 2025. During this phase, over 17,000 beneficiaries...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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