Question follow-through · 59943
Rural Payments Agency: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many complaints the Rural Payments Agency has received from farmers in the last 12 months; and what the most common issues raised were.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 13 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jun 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many complaints the Rural Payments Agency has received from farmers in the last 12 months; and what the most common issues raised were.
17 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jun 2025
Answer published
Between 01 June 2024 & 31 May 2025 the Rural Payments Agency, received 363 complaints. The most common issues raised were regarding the application and claims process for the Countryside Stewardship and Sustainable Farming Incentive schemes and outsta...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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