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 |
|---|---|---|
| 5pm on |
Major maintenance | |
| 5pm on Friday 1 December | 6pm on |
|
| 5pm on Tuesday 5 December | 9am on Wednesday |
General maintenance |
| 5pm Friday 8 December | 6pm |
Major maintenance |
| 6pm Wednesday |
8pm |
General maintenance |
| 5pm Friday 15 December | 6pm |
Major |
| 9am |
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. Not planned |
Last updated
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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.