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£1.5bn farm subsidy chaos: "Inept" planning blamed
News The Rural Payments Agency is responsible for administering the Single Payment Scheme, introduced following a 2003 reform of the way EU Common Agricultural Policy subsidies are handed out. This meant the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) had to make 23... [06 Sep 2007]
Farmers' IT system hurt by lack of testing
News The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Rural Payments Agency aimed to start payments in February and make 96 per cent of payments by the end of March. The agency did not have time to test the system as a whole before it... [18 Oct 2006]
Farmers to finally get £1.5bn subsidy cash after IT woes
News By the end of April, less than half of the £1.5bn of subsidies owed to farmers had been paid by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA). But incoming Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Secretary of State David Miliband - who took... [12 May 2006]
Government services miss online deadline
News Energy Group Online Services, Services to Insolvency Practitioners, and redundancy payments at the Department for Trade and Industry. Live Fish Movements Licenses, Waste Management Licenses, Discharge Consent Licenses; Abstraction licenes and the... [12 Apr 2006]
MPs blame IT for late payments to farmers
News The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is currently facing "substantial" problems in making payments to farmers on time after the government switched to a new handout scheme. He said: "[I]f she looks at the report of the debate in committee on the... [29 Mar 2006]
Warnings "ignored" as gov't IT project cost doubles
News The House of Commons Committee on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said it was "deeply unimpressed" by the failure of the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) to implement a new system for making payments to farmers. [24 Jan 2006]
Third of government helpline calls go unanswered
News Other helplines shamed by the figures include the Benefit Enquiry Line, the Child Support Agency and the Rural Payments Agency. More than a third of all calls to government helplines and call centres have gone unanswered in the past two years... [09 Dec 2005]
Farming subsidy IT system to cost £90m
News The Department for Environment is to spend at least £90m on a major overhaul of IT systems in the Rural Payments Agency (RPA). According to agricultural advisor ADAS, CAP reform and the introduction of the Single Payment Scheme (SPS) will mean that... [29 Jul 2005]
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