Found: Policy framework developed and issued during the agricultural transition period following the Agriculture Act

Found: challenges • Parliamentary scrutiny 8 Department for Business and Trade, Report under Section 42 of Agriculture Act

Found: I am using the wording from our Agriculture Act because we have to have a common approach.

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding will be available for new applications to the Landscape Recovery Scheme in the next application round.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The Government has allocated a record £11.8 billion to sustainable farming and food production over this parliament. Defra has set out how it plans to spend this budget on its farming blog here and here.

Landscape Recovery is part of the Environmental Land Management offer. Projects run over multiple years. In December 2025, Defra announced plans to spend £500m on the implementation of the first tranche of Round 1 agreements over the next 25 years. Further details on the timing of future rounds, and their funding, will follow in due course.

In line with its obligations under the Agriculture Act 2020, Defra regularly publishes an annual report, setting out commitments in the previous financial year, including Farming and Countryside Programme spend broken down by each scheme. The latest report, covering financial year 2024/25, can be accessed here: Farming and Countryside Programme annual report 2024 to 2025 (HTML version) - GOV.UK

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much is the total annual funding allocation for the Landscape Recovery Scheme for the current and next financial year.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The Government has allocated a record £11.8 billion to sustainable farming and food production over this parliament. Defra has set out how it plans to spend this budget on its farming blog here and here.

Landscape Recovery is part of the Environmental Land Management offer. Projects run over multiple years. In December 2025, Defra announced plans to spend £500m on the implementation of the first tranche of Round 1 agreements over the next 25 years. Further details on the timing of future rounds, and their funding, will follow in due course.

In line with its obligations under the Agriculture Act 2020, Defra regularly publishes an annual report, setting out commitments in the previous financial year, including Farming and Countryside Programme spend broken down by each scheme. The latest report, covering financial year 2024/25, can be accessed here: Farming and Countryside Programme annual report 2024 to 2025 (HTML version) - GOV.UK

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the annual farming budget for (1) 2025–26, and (2) 2026–27; and how the spending is broken down for each year.

Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The Government has allocated a record £11.8 billion to sustainable farming and food production over this parliament. On 12 March 2025 we set out how we planned to spend the budget [see attached] (£5 billion) across the 2024/25 and 2025/26 financial years.

On 16 June 2026, following the 2025 Spending Review, we set out indicative funding figures [see attached] for the 2026-27 to 2028-29 financial years, including plans to increase the amount of money paid to farmers under Environmental Land Management schemes from £800m in 2023/24 towards £2bn by 2028/29.

Please note final allocations will be agreed through business planning.

In line with its obligations under the Agriculture Act 2020, Defra regularly publishes an annual report, setting out commitments in the previous financial year, including Farming and Countryside Programme spend broken down by each scheme. The latest report covers the financial year 2024/25, and can be accessed here: Farming and Countryside Programme annual report [see attached].

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the UK’s vulnerability to external shocks in food supply.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The UK has a resilient food supply chain that is well equipped to deal with situations that have the potential to cause disruption. Defra works closely with industry and across Government to identify and monitor risks to food supply.

In compliance with the Agriculture Act 2020, the United Kingdom Food Security Report (UKFSR) is presented to Parliament at least once every three years, most recently in 2024. This examines past, current, and future trends relevant to food security and presents a full and impartial analysis of UK food security. In the intervening years, the UK Food Security Digest (UKFSD) is published containing a selection of summary statistics on issues relevant to a range of aspects of food security, drawn from national and international sources. The most recent report was published on 11 December 2025.

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support is available to small and medium-sized growers to develop direct-to-consumer sales models.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Farmers often face power imbalances within the supply chain and can feel they have little influence on commercial negotiations. Powers in the Agriculture Act have been used to introduce ‘Fair Dealings’ Regulations, applying to businesses when purchasing agricultural products from farmers. These regulations could mandate that contracts include certain information (e.g. termination clauses, duration, pricing information) and set parameters around these details. Defra will continue to work closely with all relevant industry stakeholders on the best way to achieve this.

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to support grower-led supply chains.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Farmers often face power imbalances within the supply chain and can feel they have little influence on commercial negotiations. Powers in the Agriculture Act have been used to introduce ‘Fair Dealings’ Regulations, applying to businesses when purchasing agricultural products from farmers. These regulations could mandate that contracts include certain information (e.g. termination clauses, duration, pricing information) and set parameters around these details. Defra will continue to work closely with all relevant industry stakeholders on the best way to achieve this.

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support grower-led supply chains in (a) rural areas and (b) West Dorset constituency.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Farmers often face power imbalances within the supply chain and can feel they have little influence on commercial negotiations. Powers in the Agriculture Act have been used to introduce ‘Fair Dealings’ Regulations, applying to businesses when purchasing agricultural products from farmers. These regulations could mandate that contracts include certain information (e.g. termination clauses, duration, pricing information) and set parameters around these details. Defra will continue to work closely with all relevant industry stakeholders on the best way to achieve this.

Found: Draft Regulations laid before Parliament under sections 12(8) and 50(6)(a) of the Agriculture Act 2020

Found: as: the Water Industry National Environment Improvement Programme and ELMS schemes under the Agriculture Act

Found: also considered changes in the food supply landscape since the last review, most notably the Agriculture Act

Found: report on their landscape management over the next 12 months, such as exploring the scope of the Agriculture Act

Found: report on their landscape management over the next 12 months, such as exploring the scope of the Agriculture Act

Found: Agriculture Act 2020: Post-Legislative Assessment

Found: Agriculture Act 2020: Post-Legislative Assessment

Found: Case 5: the land includes any land that is— (a) agricultural land within the meaning of the Agriculture Act

Found: Summary non-motoring 101 Adulteration of Food, Drug, etc. 10102 10102 - Summary offences under Agriculture Act

Found: Very often the nutrient pressures from agriculture act alongside other pressures, e.g. drainage, grazing

Found: EIP23 introduced new powers and duties from the Environment Act, Agriculture Act, and the Fisheries

Found: Overview of legislation and policy context 9 2.1 Environment Act (2021) 9 2.2 Agriculture Act (2020

Found: Overview of legislation and policy context 7 2.1 Environment Act (2021) 7 2.2 Agriculture Act (2020

Found: Overview of legislation and policy context 5 2.1 Environment Act (2021) 5 2.2 Agriculture Act (2020

Found: Overview of legislation and policy context 5 2.1 Environment Act (2021) 5 2.2 Agriculture Act (2020

Found: Overview of legislation and policy context 7 2.1 Environment Act (2021) 7 2.2 Agriculture Act (2020

Found: Overview of legislation and policy context 8 2.1 Environment Act (2021) 8 2.2 Agriculture Act (2020

Found: The UK Agriculture Act (202 0) [88] contains provisions regarding the improvement of soil quality.

Found: the quality of the product or 51 See the Horizontal Guidance, Part 6 and Part 7. 52 The Agriculture Act

Found: A Green Future: Our 25 Year Plan to Improve the Environment, 2018 Agriculture Act 2020 Agriculture (Wales

Found: A Green Future: Our 25 Year Plan to Improve the Environment, 2018 Agriculture Act 2020Catchment Sensitive

Found: Draft Regulations laid before Parliament under sections 12(8) and 50(6)(a) of the Agriculture Act 2020

Found: also considered changes in the food supply landscape since the last review, most notably the Agriculture Act

Found: by sections 3 and 7 of the Agricultural Wages (Scotland) Act 1949(a ) and section 67 of the Agriculture Act

Found: also be shared with the PCG under the concordat and regulations deriving from Part 6 of the Agriculture [Act

Found: land to improvement which were previously ruled out using the criteria in Section 17 of the Agriculture Act

Found: undertaking a review of monitoring to ensure future monitoring activity meets the requirements of the Agriculture Act

Found: undertaking a review of monitoring to ensure future monitoring activity meets the requirements of the Agriculture Act

Found: 3 Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations 2016 Act Environment (Wales) Act 2016 Agriculture Act

Found: Annex 2: glossary Agriculture (Wales) Act 2023 Also referred to as ‘the Agriculture Act’: new Welsh legislation

Found: The following legislation governs the sale of animal feed and forage: • The Agriculture Act 1970

Found: Sustainable Land Management (SLM) Objectives set out in The Agriculture (Wales) Act 2023 (‘the Agriculture Act

Found: Sustainable Land Management (SLM) Objectives set out in The Agriculture (Wales) Act 2023 (‘the Agriculture Act

Found: Assembly and Northern Ireland Orders in Council) Identifying the information to be provided UK • Agriculture Act

Found: MARCH 2025 Introduction The Welsh Ministers have a statutory duty under section 59(2) of the Agriculture Act