Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 6 November 2025.
Andrew Snowden
Opposition Assistant Whip (Commons)
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the suspension of the Sustainable Farming Incentive on farmers in (a) Fylde Constituency and (b) Lancashire.
Angela Eagle
The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
We do not produce Constituency level assessments. We publish regular statistics on Farm Business Income broken down in various ways. The latest data currently available are for 2023/24, 2024/25 data will be published on the 20 November 2025.
Farming evidence packs have been recently updated including key statistics and farm performance. These set out an extensive range of data to provide an overview of agriculture in the UK. We will continue to carry out appropriate and timely assessments of our interventions to inform policy development.
Across England, 50,000 farm businesses are already in agri-environmental schemes.
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