PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Floods: Worcestershire (23 September 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what type of applications to the Farming Recovery Fund he has received from farmers whose crops were affected by flood damage in Worcestershire in 2019-20.

Asked by:
Dame Harriett Baldwin (Conservative)

The Farming Recovery Fund offers funding for the repair of infrastructure and land recovery, which may include crop damage, and agreements can include a range of recovery work. Sixty applications to the fund have been received from farmers in Worcestershire, of which twenty-six cited land recovery as the principle work area.

Answered by:
Victoria Prentis (Conservative)
29 September 2020