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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Sustainable Farming Incentive for upland farmers with non-improved grassland.

The Low and no Input Grassland standard is currently being piloted for SFI and will support farmers to sustainably manage their low and no input grasslands to benefit wildlife, including pollinators, by protecting existing quality habitat and improving the diversity of other grasslands.

Our current indicative date for the introduction of the Low and no Input Grassland standard into the live scheme is 2024. We will publish more details in due course.