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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications for Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026 Window 2 were (a) started and (b) submitted on 22 September 2026; and how many applications had been started but not submitted when that window closed.

Of the 15,063 applications created for SFI26 Window 2, 12,204 were submitted before the window closed on 22 September. At the point of closure there were 2,859 applications that had been started not submitted.