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Sustainable Farming Incentive

Asked by Wendy MortonConservativeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 30 April 2025UIN 47227

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 April 2025 to Question 43886 on Sustainable Farming Incentive, what estimate his Department has made of the number of farmers impacted by the closure of the scheme; and whether they will be prioritised in future schemes.

Answered by Daniel Zeichner

Currently there are over 39, 000 live SFI agreements.

The government will work with the farming and environmental sectors to prioritise funding for future years so we can target SFI actions fairly and effectively, focusing on helping less productive land contribute to our priorities for food, farming and nature.

We will provide further details about the reformed SFI in summer 2025.

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