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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of using the Environmental Land Management Scheme to promote the benefits of dry stone walls.

We are working with stakeholders and end users to determine the specific land management actions that will be paid for under our new schemes, that will pay farmers to improve the environment, improve animal health and welfare, and reduce carbon emissions. We will set out more details on this later this year. The Agricultural Transition Plan set out examples of the types of actions that we envisage paying for under the schemes, including boundary management.