Agriculture: Suffolk Coastal

(asked on 14th May 2024) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding his Department has allocated to the farming sector in Suffolk Coastal constituency since 2022 by (a) funding type and (b) recipient.


Answered by
Mark Spencer Portrait
Mark Spencer
This question was answered on 22nd May 2024

We do not hold details of Farming in Protected Landscapes (FiPL) funding by constituency. Details of FiPL funding for projects in the Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape, which partly overlaps with the Suffolk Coastal constituency, can be found here.

The Rural Payment Agency (RPA) has supported the farming and rural sector through payments under a range of schemes.

Since 1 April 2022, the RPA has released through schemes and grants approximately £20,740,643 in the Suffolk Coastal constituency.

A breakdown of these figures provided below relates to payments released within the specified financial years 2022 to 13 May 2024, irrespective of the scheme year to which individual payments are related, and only covers payments that are provided to farmer businesses by the RPA.

Basic Payment Scheme

Countryside Stewardship Scheme

Environmental Stewardship

Sustainable Farm Incentive

Other Grants

Total

13,056,470

3,533,148

2,200,580

221,924

1,728,521

20,740,643

To meet data protection obligations, it is not possible to break this down further by recipient.

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