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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to publish (a) payment calculations and (b) option uptake data for the Environment Land Management scheme.

We published principles for how we set payment rates in our Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes in June 2021. These can be found at Environmental land management schemes: payment principles. The payment rates for all actions in the ELM schemes are published in the information about each scheme on GOV.UK.

We publish data on uptake of individual options in the Countryside Stewardship and Environmental Stewardship schemes. The latest data can be found at 2023 - Countryside Stewardship and Environmental Stewardship Data.