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Farmers: Advisory Services

Asked by Steve BarclayConservativeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 6 March 2025UIN 33001

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farmers have received funding through the Farming Resilience Fund since it was established.

Answered by Daniel Zeichner

The Farming Resilience Fund provides free business support to farmers and land managers in England to help them through agricultural transition. It was set up to available from October 2022 and will run until March 2025.


Across all three phases of the Farming Resilience Fund, our delivery partners have provided specialist one-to-one advice to 26,088 farmers (as of 25 February).

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