Environmental Land Management Schemes Debate
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Lord McFall of Alcluith
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Environmental Land Management Schemes
Lord McFall of Alcluith Excerpts(3 years, 6 months ago)
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Lord Benyon (Con)
We have had about 2,000 requests to enter the sustainable farming initiative pilot; we will probably go with around 1,000 of those, starting from October this year. We intend to have a wide geographical base as well as a wide group of different farm sizes; this will certainly include tenant farms, and we are working with the Tenant Farmers Association to achieve that.
The Lord Speaker (Lord McFall of Alcluith)
My Lords, the time allowed for this Question has elapsed. We now come to two First Readings.