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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking, in co-operation with relevant authorities, to ensure that farming and land management are focused on securing environmental enhancement and regeneration.

England’s Rural Development Programme allocates around £3bn to improving the environment between 2014 and 2020. Agri-environment schemes are voluntary agreements that provide payments to farmers and land managers to manage their land in an environmentally sensitive way.

Leaving the EU presents a major opportunity for UK agriculture. We will design new policies which benefit British agriculture, countryside and the environment specifically and provide better value for money to the taxpayer. The Government is committed to working with others to devise a new agri-environment system which will support farmers and other land managers to deliver environmental benefits.