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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how his Department plans to use payments to land managers in the proposed environment land management scheme to support the creation of the Nature Recovery Network as outlined in his Department's 25 Year Environment Plan.

In the 25 Year Environment Plan we committed to considering delivery options for the Nature Recovery Network over the next two years, as we develop and pilot our new environmental land management scheme and investigate the use of other new and innovative funding mechanisms.

Funding for collaborative projects, incentivising land managers to work together to secure environmental improvements at landscape and catchment level, was identified as a potential element of the future scheme.