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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications (a) her department has received to the Slurry Infrastructure Grant Scheme Rounds 1 and 2; (b) have been approved to progress; (c) have been submitted, and; (d) have had grant funding agreements offered.

As of 24 April, the Rural Payments Agency has received:

2,087 applications received (a) to the Slurry Infrastructure Grant Scheme Rounds 1 and 2 – Stage 1

1,175 have been approved (b) to progress to Stage 2

441 applications submitted (c) to the 2^nd stage

Once these checks are passed the applicant is then invited to submit a Full Application – ‘Stage Three’.

259 Full Applications received to date of which 186 have had (d) grant funding agreements offered.