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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress has been made on the (a) design and (b) implementation of agricultural funding after 2022.

The UK Government has committed to protect the amount we allocate to farm support, in cash terms, until the end of this Parliament. We have also committed to introduce a new environmental land management scheme thereafter and, in England, we have already started detailed work on the design of that future scheme.

Outside of the Common Agricultural Policy we can have an agriculture and land management policy that works for the whole of the United Kingdom and we intend to give as much flexibility as possible for each devolved administration to design policies tailored to their own needs. We are working closely with the Devolved Administrations on the design of future UK frameworks.