AQW 11352/17-22

Mr John Blair
Alliance Party
South Antrim

Tabled Date: 01/12/2020
Answered On Date: 18/12/2020
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether further tranches of the Environmental Farming Scheme will open in (i) 2021; (ii) 2022 and; (iii) 2023.

Answer:

Subject to completion of a Business Case to support further tranches, subsequent Department of Finance approval and availability of national funding, my department is planning to open a fifth tranche of the Environmental Farming Scheme in 2021 and a sixth tranche in 2022.