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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of the Environment Stewardship scheme on promoting nature and wildlife.

In 2013 Natural England prepared and published an evidence synthesis paper called Evidence for New Environmental Land Management Scheme (NELMS) Design, which is available on the national archives section of Gov.uk. This paper references a range of reports, including those which have assessed the impact of the Environmental Stewardship Scheme on promoting nature and wildlife.