Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which stakeholders his Department is consulting on designing the Environmental Land Management schemes.
Since the publication of the 25 Year Environment Plan last year, the Government has embarked on a consulting exercise during which we have had over a dozen regional consultation days with a variety of stakeholders. We also had tens of thousands of online submissions. Since the consultation closed we have been in regular contact with stakeholders and will continue to engage with them in the run up to Environmental Land Management schemes being rolled out over the next few years.