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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the replacement scheme for the Sustainable Farming Incentive will be (a) index-linked to inflation and (a) provide greater financial support than the SFI scheme.

Prices in schemes have increased in the last 3 years to reflect inflation and pay a fair price for action.

The overall budget has been set in the context of the Spending Review and is sufficient to continue rolling out schemes and paying farmers as planned this year.

The budget for future years will be set in phase 2 of the Spending Review. We will provide further details about the reformed SFI offer following the Spending Review.