The EFRA Committee will question experts and representatives of upland farmers and land managers to understand the support they need and the challenges they face from government policy.
\r\nMPs will examine problems affecting the viability of upland farming, such as difficulties in accessing\u202Ffunding from environmental schemes and the impact of cuts to direct payments.
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\r\nThe Committee has also consistently heard evidence of tension between land managers and Natural England. Witnesses may be asked for their views on the organisation’s interventions on livestock numbers, consents for farming operations and its understanding of upland community life.
\r\nThere may also be questions on anecdotal evidence that tenant farmers and farmers on common land have been displaced by landowners changing their business models.
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