Question follow-through · 82485
Rural Payments Agency: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the (a) adequacy of services provided to farmers by the Rural Payments Agency and (b) effectiveness of the work of that agency since 5 September 2025.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 15 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the (a) adequacy of services provided to farmers by the Rural Payments Agency and (b) effectiveness of the work of that agency since 5 September 2025.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2025
Answer published
Ensuring the adequacy of services provided by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) and the effectiveness of the RPA is a priority. Since 5 September the RPA has opened the Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier Scheme and supported the recent announcement regardi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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