Question follow-through · 64335
Agriculture: Subsidies
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the time taken to process rural payments.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 1 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
1 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the time taken to process rural payments.
3 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) understands the importance of cashflow for farmers and rural businesses. It makes payments for schemes and grants against published performance indicators and continues to look at opportunities to issue payments as promptly...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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