Question follow-through · 19276
Sustainable Farming Incentive
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of Sustainable Farming Incentive payments and Capital Grant payments have been paid late in the current financial year.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 15 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 3 Sept 2026 · 50 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
15 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of Sustainable Farming Incentive payments and Capital Grant payments have been paid late in the current financial year.
1 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Rural Payments Agency aims to make payments to farmers and land managers as promptly as possible. In the current financial year, 2.56% of Sustainable Farming Incentive payments and 0.87% of Capital Grant payments have been paid later than expected.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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