Rural Payments service: check for maintenance and downtime
Check for maintenance and downtime of the Rural Payments service over the next 4 weeks
Applies to England
There will be times when the Rural Payments service is unavailable because of essential planned maintenance and updates.
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) will aim to minimise disruption to the service by scheduling planned maintenance times. We will try to give as much notice as possible about maintenance and downtime of the service, though we may not always be able to do this.
What maintenance and downtime is scheduled
Maintenance and downtime scheduled for the next 4 weeks. Some dates and times may change during the 4-week period.
| From | To | Reason for downtime |
|---|---|---|
| 6.00pm 24 |
10:00pm 24 |
General maintenance |
| 6:00 pm | ||
| 9:00 pm Wednesday 30 April |
General maintenance | |
| 5:15 pm Tuesday 06 May |
9:00 am Wednesday 07 May |
Major maintenance |
| 6:00 pm Wednesday 07 May |
11:00 pm Wednesday 07 May |
System maintenance |
| 6:00 pm Wednesday 14 May |
9:00 pm Wednesday 14 May |
General maintenance |
| 6:00 pm Wednesday 21 May |
9:00 pm Wednesday 21 May |
General maintenance |
Types of maintenance
There are different types of maintenance that need to be carried out.
| Type of maintenance | Maintenance details |
|---|---|
| Major | Planned downtime to release new functionality and software upgrades |
| General | Weekly planned downtime to update land and customer details |
| System | To fix system functionality |
Updates to this page
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Downtime notification added for 24 April 2025 between 6pm and 10pm.
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Added down time from 09/04 - 21/05. Removed downtime before 04/04.
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Added and removed various dates and times of the downtimes
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Removed 2 entries from the 12th of march.
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The downtime for the 11th and 12th of March has been added.
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Added entry for Thursday 19th March
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Downtime notifications added to page for March and April 2025
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Updates to Major downtime notifications for December.
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Updated planned downtime for the remainder of October 2024
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Further updates to October 2024 Downtime notifications added to page
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Essential maintenance downtime added for Friday 20 September between 6pm and 8pm
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Updated downtime scheduled.
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Scheduled downtime added for Wednesday 7 August 2024
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Scheduled maintenance added for 22 July.
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Updates to planned downtime for July and August 2024.
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Updates to June downtime!
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Added downtime notification for 13 May
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Updates to planned downtime to include additional downtime for 24 April
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Updates to Rural Payments downtimes scheduled for May 2024
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Updated Rural Payments downtime for May 2024.
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Updates to Rural Payments downtime for March/April 2024
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Updates to downtime times for the March and April 2024
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Updated planned downtime for March
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Further updates made to February/March 2024 scheduled downtimes
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Downtime scheduled for today 21/02 has been updated
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Updated scheduled Rural Payments downtime notifications for February 2024.
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Updates to RP downtime scheduled for Friday 19 January
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Updates to planned Rural Payments downtime for January 2024
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Updates to Friday 12th January 2024 for planned downtime.
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Downtime added for week commencing 1 January 2024
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Updated downtime for week commencing 18 December.
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Update to planned downtime during December 2023
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Planned downtime entered for Wednesday 29th November from 6pm to 9pm
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Updates to planned downtimes during November and December 2023.
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The Rural Payments Service is back online
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Rural Payments service unavailable due to unplanned system maintenance.
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Updates to planned downtime for essential maintenance to Rural Payments for November.
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Change of downtime.
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Updated to scheduled Maintenance
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First published.