Environmental Land Management Schemes: Finance
(asked on 29th October 2026) - 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 the cost is of the live existing agreements for a) Sustainable Farming Incentive, b) Countryside Stewardship and c) Landscape Recovery.
Answered by
Stephen Morgan
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 3rd November 2026
The latest complete year figures are provided in the 2025/26 Farming Annual Report. They show that in that year Defra spent:
- £738 million on Sustainable Farming Incentive agreements;
- £887 million on agri-environment schemes, including Countryside Stewardship and older Environmental Stewardship scheme agreements; and
- £25 million on Landscape Recovery agreements.
Information on 2026/27 will be published around September next year. Final values will depend on claims made by agreement holders.