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Guidance

The Single Payment Scheme

The EU's former main agricultural subsidy scheme for farmers.

Updates to this page

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Rural Payments Agency
Published:
10 September 2012
Last updated:
13 June 2013
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  1. Fixing references to specialist guides

  2. Updated to include the 2012 entitlements values.

  3. Updated dates with RPA

  4. First published.

This guidance was withdrawn on

The Single Payment Scheme is no longer available. 

Applies to England

The Single Payment Scheme (SPS) - part of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) - was previously the EU’s main agricultural subsidy scheme.

The SPS scheme closed in 2014. If you need any information about the scheme please refer to the previous guides, which can be found in the National Archives.

Alternatively, you can contact the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) at ruralpayments@defra.gov.uk, or call on 03000 200 301.

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