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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with representatives from organic farms during the design of the Environmental Land Management scheme.

We are working closely with a range of environmental and agricultural stakeholders collaboratively to design the new schemes that reward environmental benefits.

The new schemes will fairly compensate farmers for environmental goods generated across all land types and farm management systems, including organic farms.

Several representatives of the organic sector are involved in codesigning the schemes in a variety of ways, including being part of our stakeholder and codesign groups, as well as separate one to one and small group meetings.