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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the number of farms that hadn't applied to the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme before its closure in West Dorset constituency.

Our recent published statistics on area under agri-environment schemes can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/area-under-agri-environment-schemes-in-england-2024/area-under-agri-environment-schemes-in-england-at-31st-december-2024

They show that 58% of Dorset land parcel area (which approximates the eligible area) was under SFI agreements.

In January 2025, there were 1,400 SFI23 and 400 SFI expanded offer agreements in the ITL2 area of Dorset and Somerset.