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Sustainable Farming Incentive: South Somerset

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 44111, tabled on 3 April 2025

Question

Adam Dance
Liberal Democrat
Yeovil
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with farmers in (a) Yeovil constituency and (b) south Somerset on the closure of the Sustainable Farming Initiative.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Labour
Cambridge
Commons

Answered on

10 April 2025

Defra ministers are engaging with farmers and stakeholders regarding the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI). On the SFI, Ministers have met specifically with the NFU, National Beef Association, British Poultry Council, Soil Association, Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers, National Pig Association, National Sheep Association, British Egg Industry Council, National Federation of Young Farmers, British Free Range Egg Producers Association, LAA, Tenant Farmers Association and Country, Land and Business Association.

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