Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 22
74th Report - Environmental regulation
Published 25 Mar 2026
Addressed to HM Treasury
Public Accounts Committee Environmental regulation All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Recommendation (the committee's words)
Defra told us about ways in which it expects the regulatory burden on farmers to improve in the coming months. It plans to set out a farming roadmap which will present the outcomes it wants to see and how it will measure these.56 It explained this will improve the clarity of its approach to regulation and its new vision for farming.57 We asked Defra if it will 51 Qq 17 and 26 52 Q 17 53 Qq 13, 16 and 18 54 Q 26 55 C&AG’s Report, para 12 56 Q 23 57 Qq 43 and 65 16 allow some time to transition to new approaches, and Defra reassured us the farming roadmap would include timetables for farmers to achieve compliance with any regulatory changes.58
From: Public Accounts Committee, 74th Report - Environmental regulation (HC 1687), 25 March 2026
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 1 June 2026 (deadline 25 May 2026).