Question follow-through · 120212
Sustainable Farming Incentive: Rivers
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is planning to take to ensure that practices around River Friendly Farming are included under the new Sustainable Farming Incentive.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 11 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 18 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Environment and energy
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- Sites of Special Scientific Interest · 2 Jun 2026
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- Water Restoration Fund: Rivers · 2 Jun 2026
- Countryside Stewardship Scheme and Sustainable Farming Incentive: Common Land · 8 Jun 2026
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
11 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is planning to take to ensure that practices around River Friendly Farming are included under the new Sustainable Farming Incentive.
16 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Mar 2026
Answer published
SFI includes a number of actions to support rivers, such as BFS6 (“6m to 12m habitat strip next to watercourses”). The Government is also supporting river restoration through Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier (CSHT), Landscape Recovery (LR), and ELM Cap...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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