Summary
It is bad enough that the Rural Payments Agency has spectacularly botched the distribution of single farm payments. It is even worse to discover that the agency has massaged the figures to make it appear as if more farmers have had their cases satisfactorily resolved than is actually the case.
Talk to the RPA and it will tell you that 1,700 farmers out of a total of 116,000 are awaiting final payments under the disastrous scheme introduced by former Defra Secretary of State Margaret Beckett.See the full content of this document
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Farm Payments Cover-Up Shock
But delve a little deeper and you find that around 19,000 farmers received incorrect payments last year, and that almost all of them are still waiting for their cases to be resolve...
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