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<p>The farming budget in England is an average £2.4bn per year to 2024/25. We are
now two years into our 7-year transition period where we are phasing out farm subsidies
and instead investing the money in farming and the environment. The budget available
for the sector is the same. We are committed to being transparent about the budget
and how it is spent. We included in the Agriculture Act a requirement for government
to publish an annual report about the budget, and we did this for the first time in
2022. <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Ffuture-farming-and-countryside-programme-annual-report-2021-to-2022%2Ffuture-farming-and-countryside-programme-annual-report-2021-to-2022-html-version&data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C8f4f579fcae243a3991e08db166346ee%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638128387860364244%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=KahJwzDAfOQu0CsOldaOZ4ZrftxImx3xySjKOhEm9RU%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">Future Farming and Countryside Programme annual report, 2021 to 2022
(HTML version) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>That report set out that during
2021/22 a total of £2.294bn was spent, including £2.274bn being paid to farmers and
land managers. £20m was spent on Technical Assistance to support the design, implementation
and delivery of schemes within the programme, including staff and contractors, representing
less than 1% of the total spend. That amount aligns with the levels spent under CAP.</p><p>
</p><p>There is not a like for like comparison of the reductions applied to Direct
Payments being invested in new schemes in a given year since the original composition
of the £2.4bn included RDPE schemes as well as Direct Payments and the budget is an
average across this Parliament.</p>
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