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 |
|---|---|---|
22 May |
Major maintenance | |
| 11:00pm Tuesday 28 May |
7:00am Wednesday |
Major maintenance |
| 5:15pm |
9:00am |
Major maintenance |
| 6:00pm Wednesday |
9:00pm Wednesday |
Major maintenance |
12 June |
9:00pm Wednesday |
|
| 5:15pm Thursday |
9:00am Friday 14 June |
Major maintenance |
| 6:00pm Wednesday 26 June |
9:00pm Wednesday 26 June |
Major maintenance |
| 5:15pm Thursday 27 June |
9:00am Friday 28 June |
Major 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 |
Last updated
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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.