Sustainable Farming Incentive
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of limiting farm businesses to a single Sustainable Farming Incentive agreement on farm-level participation and flexibility.
Answered by Stephen Morgan
A quarter of SFI money goes to just 4% of farms. The Government is making improvements to the offer to ensure more farmers can access funding.
The reformed SFI26 offer will be more focussed, more transparent and fairer so that as many farmers as possible can benefit from agreements. Changes such as limiting each farm business to have only one SFI26 agreement will allow available funding to be spread across as many farmers as possible.
The Government has engaged with stakeholders to make sure the SFI26 offer works for farmers while delivering for the environment.
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