Conclusion 22

The Government’s commitment to publishing a Land Use Framework for England offers a vital opportunity to ensure that English land performs the many functions required of it, including food production, while also supporting the Government’s net zero and nature targets. There is a clear consensus among stakeholders, other select committees, and the Government itself, with which we agree, that the framework should provide a non-prescriptive set of principles for decision-making, and that the three compartments underpinning the framework should be continuous rather than discrete categories.