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RPA confirms 2018 BPS and CS bridging payments
Farmers due their 2018 Countryside Stewardship advance or Basic Payment Scheme payment will receive bridging payments in April.
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Farmers advised to apply early for this year’s funding schemes
Farmers and land managers applying for BPS and claiming for CS and ES payments are urged to do so in good time ahead of the 15 May deadline.
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Countryside Stewardship opens for applications in 2019
Farmers, foresters and land managers can now apply for a range of schemes that pay for environmental benefits
Notice
Rural Payments Agency key dates 2019
Key dates timeline for the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), Countryside Stewardship (CS) and Environmental Stewardship (ES)
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93.4% of Basic Payment Scheme claims paid in December
The Rural Payments Agency confirms that over £1.57 billion has been paid out so far to farmers in England.
Detailed guide
Cross compliance 2019
Farmers and land managers must follow these cross compliance rules from 1 January 2019 if they claim for the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), a stewardship scheme or the English Woodland Grant Scheme (EWGS) in 2019.
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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
Nobel House,
17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR
United Kingdom
Telephone
020 8225 7318
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
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Reading
RG1 3YD
United Kingdom
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