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

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the replacement of field drains will qualify for support under the new Environmental Land Management schemes.

We are working with stakeholders and end users to determine the specific land management actions that will be paid for under the Environmental Land Management scheme. We will set out more details on this later this year. ‘The Path to Sustainable Farming: An Agricultural Transition Plan 2021 to 2024’ set out examples of the types of actions that we envisage paying for under the scheme.