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Agriculture: Subsidies

Asked by Sir John HayesConservativeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 9 October 2024UIN 5867

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to commission an impact assessment of the agricultural transition plan.

Answered by Daniel Zeichner

The present Government will not be over-turning the applecart. We are fully committed to the Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes set out in the previous Government’s Agricultural Transition Plan. We will optimise these schemes in an orderly way to ensure they produce the right outcomes for farmers.

We plan to increase the transparency of these schemes by publishing data on the impact they are having. We will confirm next steps in the rollout of other ELM schemes, including how we will publish this data, in due course.

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