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Advance payments issued to farmers
Press release
The Rural Payment Agency issued the first Basic Payment Scheme advance payments.
Sustainable Farming Incentive opens for applications
Press release
Farmers across England can now apply to the Sustainable Farming Incentive.
Payments brought forward to help farmers with cashflow
Press release
Plans to make Direct Payments in two instalments announced to help farmers with cashflow
Exit scheme opens to support farmers who wish to leave the industry and create opportunities for new entrants
Press release
Government opens application window for the Lump Sum Exit Scheme to facilitate a voluntary planned exit from the industry.
The Government has announced steps to assist farmers with the availability of fertilisers to address uncertainty amongst growers and keep costs down for farmers
Rural Payments Agency key dates 2022
Guidance
Key dates timeline for the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), Countryside Stewardship (CS), Environmental Stewardship (ES) and the Lump Sum Exit Scheme.
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Rural Payments Agency
Reading
RG1 3YD
United Kingdom
Main switchboard
03000 200 301
(Official correspondence only)
Find out about call charges at www.gov.uk/call-charges
Defra rural services helpline
Defra rural services helpline
03000 200 301
Contact the Defra Rural Services helpline for farming-related advice from the Rural Payments Agency.
Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5pm.
You should also call us 24/7 to report suspicion of notifiable disease in animals.
Find out about call charges at www.gov.uk/call-charges.
Cattle tracing
0345 050 1234 (General)
0345 050 3456 (Welsh)
RPA fraud line
Room 300 North Gate House
PO Box 69
Reading
Berkshire
RG1 3YD
United Kingdom
Fraud line (freephone)
0800 347 347
If you suspect that a fraud has been committed, please let us know by e-mail or by calling the freephone fraud line.
Your details and the information you provide will be treated in the strictest confidence.
Agricultural Wages complaints
Rural Payments Agency
Sterling House
17 Dix's Field
Exeter
EX1 1QA
United Kingdom
Agricultural Wages Team
01392 315719
Search for 'agricultural wages complaint form' at www.gov.uk for more information.
RPA media enquiries
Seacole Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
United Kingdom
Telephone
03459 33 55 77
Out of Hours (queries before 9am and after 6pm on weekdays, and on weekends and public holidays)
0345 051 8486
This telephone number is for press calls only. Please see above for helpline / main switchboard.
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Rural Payments Agency
Rural Payments Agency
Eden Bridge House
Lowther Street
Carlisle
Cumbria
CA3 8DX
United Kingdom
Phone
03300 416 502
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