Rural development practitioners felt there needs to be ring- fenced funding for this element, and the funding should be longer-term. o How support will enable delivery of public goods as well as food production . o Co-operation and joint applications for support, as well as enabling interventions at scale. o A consideration of the whole landscape and the need to integrate with other funding programmes, for example for forestry and conservation. • Participants also asked whether the framework Bill itself could be more specific, with targets, and suggestions for how funding is distributed. • More generally, there was wider discussion around the intended scope of a new policy in relation to rural development.