Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much Natural England spent on site management per hectare for (a) national nature reserves and (b) Higher Level Stewardship Agreements in each of the last ten years.
The total area of National Nature Reserves (NNR) managed by Natural England is approximately 60,000 ha. The table below sets out the breakdown of funding year on year.
Pre-2014 data is not held centrally and to obtain it would incur disproportionate costs.
Year | £ | Ha | £ / Ha |
2014/15 | £4,977,000 | 60000 | £83 |
2015/16 | £3,986,000 | 60000 | £66 |
2016/17 | £2,957,100 | 60000 | £49 |
2017/18 | £3,184,000 | 60000 | £53 |
2018/19 | £3,197,000 | 60000 | £53 |
2019/20 | £3,233,000 | 60000 | £54 |
It is not possible to provide a figure for site management spend per hectare under Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) agreements. Hectarage is based on a scheme year while the payments are based on a calendar year. The table below sets out the amount of HLS payment value every year in England since 2010.
Year | Total |
2010 | £96,848,808 |
2011 | £117,519,353 |
2012 | £141,073,804 |
2013 | £182,878,594 |
2014 | £204,930,051 |
2015 | £163,085,900 |
2016 | £154,369,818 |
2017 | £146,954,501 |
2018 | £128,842,685 |
2019 | £179,031,585 |