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Question follow-through · 18409

Farmers: Surveys

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department undertakes research or collects data on confidence among farmers and agricultural businesses.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
13 Jul 2026
Target answer date
15 Jul 2026
Answer
16 Jul 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Jul 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department undertakes research or collects data on confidence among farmers and agricultural businesses.

  2. 15 Jul 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 Jul 2026

    Answer published

    Defra publishes various measures of farmer confidence, including a summary of free text comments by theme, collected via the Farmer Opinion Tracker. The latest results are published here and the next set of results will be available on the same page on 29...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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