Question follow-through · 122081
Agriculture: Land Use
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her department expects to be able to publish the fully updated data and mapping for Agricultural Land Classifications in England.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 25 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 25 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her department expects to be able to publish the fully updated data and mapping for Agricultural Land Classifications in England.
25 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Mar 2026
Answer published
A new predictive Agricultural Land Classification (ALC) map for England has been created to replace the existing 1960s provisional ALC map. The 1960s provisional ALC map does not show ALC Grade 3 subdivision into subgrade 3a and 3b and reflects a supersed...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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