Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government, following cuts to delinked payments and the cessation of new applications to the Sustainable Farming Incentive, whether they still expect to distribute the full Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs budget of £2.4 billion in 2025–26.
We remain committed to investing £5 billion of funding in the farming budget this year and next (£2.6 billion for 24/25 and the £2.4 billion for 25/26, as previously announced). We are on track to spend all the funding that is available.