Environmental Land Management Schemes
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications his Department has received for the (a) Sustainable Farming Incentive and (b) Environmental Land Management scheme; and what the status is of each application.
Answered by Daniel Zeichner
(a)The Sustainable Farming Incentive has a rolling application window and as of 04 February the RPA has received 46,765 applications of which 42,497 agreements have been offered and 35,949 accepted. ** Farmers can have more than one agreement in SFI schemes (including SFI Pilot, SFI 2023 SFI EO).
The Get Funding to Improve Animal Health and Welfare Review scheme has a rolling application window and as of 04 February the RPA has received 8,992 claims, of which 8,079 claims were accepted.
(b) Rural Payment Agency received 9,105 applications for Countryside Stewardship revenue agreements to start 01 January 2024. 8,313 agreements were offered, and 8,308 agreements were accepted.
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