Countryside Stewardship Scheme
(asked on 6th June 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of people were successful in applications for (a) entry level stewardship, and (b) higher level stewardship in each region in each of the last five years.
The Environmental Stewardship scheme closed to new applicants in 2014. Therefore no people were successful in applications from January 2015 onwards.
The following table summarises, by region, the number of applicants for Entry Level Stewardship (ELS) and Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) agreements in 2014 and the proportion of successful applications entered into in that year.
Region | ELS applications received in 2014 | ELS agreements entered into in 2014 | % of successful applications | HLS applications received in 2014 | HLS agreements entered into in 2014 | % of successful applications |
East Midlands | 45 | 38 | 84% | 58 | 49 | 84% |
East of England | 39 | 34 | 87% | 173 | 146 | 84% |
North East | 115 | 29 | 25% | 31 | 28 | 90% |
North West | 217 | 214 | 99% | 134 | 111 | 83% |
South East | 40 | 39 | 98% | 101 | 95 | 94% |
South West | 472 | 357 | 76% | 291 | 257 | 88% |
West Midlands | 116 | 107 | 92% | 150 | 144 | 96% |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 329 | 87 | 26% | 76 | 63 | 83% |
Total | 1373 | 905 | 66% | 1014 | 893 | 88% |