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 potential merits of extending the Slurry Infrastructure Grant offer beyond three rounds of funding.

As we set out in the Agricultural Transition Plan, we are planning to run two further rounds of the Slurry Infrastructure grant in autumn 2023 and 2024. We will fund as many farms as we can to go beyond minimum legal obligations, but will not be able to fund everyone. We will continue to work with the industry to prioritise funding fairly while maximising environmental outcomes.