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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2022 to Question 34984 on Agriculture: Land, whether she is taking steps to reclassify class 3b agricultural land as best and most versatile agricultural land.

Best and Most Versatile Land is defined in the National Planning Policy Framework and Natural England’s guide to assessing development proposals on agricultural land as land in grades 1, 2 and 3a of the Agricultural Land Classification (and therefore not including 3b).