Environmental Land Management Schemes

(asked on 13th June 2022) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the objectives of the Environmental Land Management scheme (ELMS) are; and what steps he plans to take to enable (a) hon. Members and (b) the public to scrutinise how the three tiers of ELMS are meeting those objectives.


Answered by
Victoria Prentis Portrait
Victoria Prentis
Attorney General
This question was answered on 16th June 2022

We published the high-level outcomes expected from the schemes in January 2022. We will keep our aims under review as we develop long-term legally binding targets under the Environment Act and set out the policy pathways to meet them under our update of the Environmental Improvement Plan - due in 2023. As well as updates via the Environmental Improvement Plan, routine monitor and evaluation we have a legal Duty in the Agriculture Act 2020 to publish a backward looking report every years. We intend to use that to provide route updates for parliamentarians, farmers and the wider public on how we are performing. We have a further legal duty to publish evaluations of the effectiveness of our financial assistance schemes.

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