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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of funding awarded to Landscape Recovery projects has gone to farms under 50 hectares in size.

All land types and land managers were eligible for the first 2 rounds of Landscape Recovery, provided they could pull together a 500+ hectare project. Successful projects involve a wide range of participants, including farmers, tenants, charities, and local authorities.

Funding is awarded to a single legal entity (SLE) for each project, e.g. a farmer cluster or eNGO. The SLE is required to work with land managers to agree how funding is disbursed fairly.

Because of this, and the fact that land managers can enter whole or part holdings into the scheme, we do not hold the information requested.