00:00Thank you very much Madam Deputy Speaker. Farmers in North Shropshire are really keen
00:03to improve the environment and farm in a friendly way, but they're also running businesses
00:06and they need to plan. There are farmers in my constituency who are hoping to apply for
00:10grants to raise their water table in peat soil areas. Those grants haven't even opened,
00:15that's why they haven't applied and now the opportunity's gone. Can he tell us what
00:19he's going to do to enable farmers to plan and what the replacement scheme is going to
00:23look like?
00:25Well the Honourable Lady raises an important question. SFI is only one part of the set
00:30of schemes that the Department has to work with farmers on nature restoration and my
00:34colleague is just telling me there are ÂŁ300 million available for peat restoration, so
00:37there are other schemes available.
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