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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what budget has been allocated to the Landscape Recovery scheme.

The Landscape Recovery scheme will enable farmers, tenants, charities, local authorities, national parks and other land managers to deliver landscape and ecosystem recovery through long-term, large-scale projects. Learning from the early pilots will help us to refine the scheme design and understand project-level funding needs. We will manage the overall farming budget to respond to demand in a way that helps achieve our intended outcomes, keeping the allocation of funding between different schemes under review over time. Consistent with the policy proposals set out in the Agricultural Transition Plan in November 2020, we plan to spend up to £50 million from the farming budget on Landscape Recovery pilot projects over the next three years.