Countryside Stewardship Scheme
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department allocated to the Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund 2024 in (a) total and (b) each year.
Answered by Daniel Zeichner
Year | Number of applications received | Number of successful applications | Funding allocated [millions] | Funding spent (to date) [millions] |
2015 | 36 | 19 | £12.8 in total, funded under the Rural Development Programme for England | £0.2 |
2016 | 50 | 30 | £0.6 | |
2017 (national round) | 40 | 37 |
| |
2017 (Northwest England flooding round) | 13 | 12 | £0.5 | |
2018 | 55 | 38 | £1.6 | |
2019 | 43 | 39 | £0.6 | |
2020 |
|
| £1.8 | |
2021 |
|
|
| £0.8 |
2022 | 45 | 41 | £2.25 | £0.91 |
2023 | 45 | 42 | £3 | £0.56 |
2024 | 24 | 18 | £2.5 | £0.88 |
Total |
|
| £20.55 | £8.45 |
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