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 effect in terms of loss of amenities on surrounding properties where an Environmental Stewardship Scheme is in operation.

Land management activities undertaken as part of an Environmental Stewardship agreement are confined to the land under agreement. No such assessment has been made, and Defra is not aware of any such reports of loss of amenity on any surrounding properties where an Environmental Stewardship agreement is in operation.