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Rory Stewart

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Business of the House
Thursday 3rd February 2011

(13 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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James Paice Portrait Mr Paice
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I can tell the hon. Gentleman that the decision is imminent. This is very important. We are well aware of the work that he started on this subject, and will make an announcement shortly.

Rory Stewart Portrait Rory Stewart (Penrith and The Border) (Con)
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Will the Minister please give us more detail on exactly what will happen with IT management and mapping to speed up payments, particularly for small farmers?

James Paice Portrait Mr Paice
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The Rural Payments Agency has been very involved over the past six or nine months with the providers of our IT system in introducing what they apparently term a number of “fixes” to the system to try to overcome many of the problems, and they are now working through, and enabling us to get through, some of the backlog. I suspect that we will shortly be making a decision on making manual payments, to ensure that more farmers, especially small farmers, receive their money.

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