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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what data her Department holds on the amount of arable land that has seen its land usage change from arable farmland in the last 3 years.

Agricultural land can be taken out of arable cultivation for a variety of reasons, including for agricultural purposes (for example as bare fallow within the annual crop rotations or for temporary cover crops for environmental and soil health benefits). It is therefore not possible to provide accurate data on how much land has been taken out of arable cultivation permanently as this can differ each year.

This table shows the arable crop and uncropped arable land areas:

Agricultural land area statistics are available here: Agricultural land use in England - GOV.UK.