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

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they can provide an update on the current status of the roll-out of the environmental land management schemes; and when they expect the schemes to be fully rolled out.

The first Sustainable Farming Incentive pilot agreements started in 2021. We started to roll out core elements of the Sustainable Farming Incentive from June 2022, and we will expand those elements until we have the full offer available in 2025.

In February 2022, farmers and land managers were invited to apply for funding for Landscape Recovery, and following a competitive application process, Defra confirmed the 22 selected projects on Friday 2 September 2022. We will release more information on round 2 in due course. We will also publish more information on Local Nature Recovery by the end of the year.