Environmental Land Management Schemes: Finance

(asked on 14th October 2022) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much money from the public purse has been spent on devising and implementing the Environmental Land Schemes in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Mark Spencer Portrait
Mark Spencer
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 2nd November 2022

At this early stage in the Agricultural Transition, we need to dedicate more resource to the design and implementation of the Environmental Land Management schemes we’re bringing forward. We have made a commitment that, once fully operational, running costs of the schemes will not exceed 10% of the total cost of the schemes. Across Defra and delivery bodies we are spending approximately £90million from financial years 20/21 to 22/23 on designing and delivering the schemes.

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