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The ELM scheme consists of three components: • The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), which will...

Conclusion
The ELM scheme consists of three components: • The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), which will pay farmers for actions to manage their land in an environmentally sustainable way; 2 C&AG’s Report, The Environmental Land Management scheme, Session 2021–22, HC 664, 15 September 2021 3 C&AG’s Report, para 1 - 3 4 Committee of Public Accounts, Progress on the Common Agricultural Policy Delivery Programme, Fortieth Report of Session 2016–17, HC 766,10 February 2017 5 Q 43; C&AG’s Report, para 1 – 3; Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, A Green Future: Our 25 Year Plan to Improve the Environment, January 2018 6 C&AG’s Report, para 1.10 10 Environmental Land Management Scheme • Local Nature Recovery, which will pay farmers for more complex actions that deliver benefits at a local level and encourage collaboration between farmers; • Landscape Recovery, which will support large-scale projects to deliver landscape and ecosystem recovery through long-term land-use change projects.
Government Response

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Addressee Bodies
HM Treasury
Timeline
Recommendation age 4.7 yrs
Report published 09 Jan 2022