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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the number of organic farms in the UK which use permaculture or sustainable intensification techniques.

In 2016, there were 3,559 organic farms (producers) in the United Kingdom. Through the Sustainable Intensification Research Platform we know that some of these farms practice sustainable intensification but we do not keep a record of the numbers.

We do not keep a record of the number of farms that practice permaculture.