Countryside Stewardship Scheme
(asked on 13th March 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department allocated to the Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund 2024 in (a) total and (b) each year.
Year | Number of applications received | Number of successful applications | Funding allocated [millions] | Funding spent (to date) [millions] |
2015 | 36 | 19 | £12.8 in total, funded under the Rural Development Programme for England | £0.2 |
2016 | 50 | 30 | £0.6 | |
2017 (national round) | 40 | 37 |
| |
2017 (Northwest England flooding round) | 13 | 12 | £0.5 | |
2018 | 55 | 38 | £1.6 | |
2019 | 43 | 39 | £0.6 | |
2020 |
|
| £1.8 | |
2021 |
|
|
| £0.8 |
2022 | 45 | 41 | £2.25 | £0.91 |
2023 | 45 | 42 | £3 | £0.56 |
2024 | 24 | 18 | £2.5 | £0.88 |
Total |
|
| £20.55 | £8.45 |