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Sustainable Farming Incentive

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the (a) range and (b) scale of environmental actions that can be delivered by farm businesses within the £100,000 annual agreement cap under the Sustainab

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
15 Jun 2026
Target answer date
17 Jun 2026
Answer
22 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the (a) range and (b) scale of environmental actions that can be delivered by farm businesses within the £100,000 annual agreement cap under the Sustainab

  2. 17 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 22 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    A quarter of Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) money goes to just 4% of farms. The Government is making improvements to the offer to ensure more farmers can access funding. The reformed SFI26 offer will be more focussed, more transparent and fairer so t...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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