{"id":79172,"date":"2017-02-22T17:28:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T17:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=1f228894b6487fa45bf7ed1148e178df"},"modified":"2017-02-22T17:28:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T17:28:19","slug":"news-story-environment-secretary-announces-bridging-payments-for-basic-payment-scheme-2016-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=79172","title":{"rendered":"News story: Environment Secretary announces bridging payments for Basic Payment Scheme 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom has secured bridging payments for farmers awaiting their full <abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr> payment for 2016, to ease their financial cash flow.<\/p>\n<p>To date <abbr title=\"Basic Payment Scheme\">BPS<\/abbr> payments worth \u00a31.52 billion have been made to more than 82,000 (95.5%) farmers in England. These include payments on a range of claim types and sizes, including cross-border, young farmer, those inspected and common land claims.<\/p>\n<p>Any eligible farmer who has not received their full payment for 2016 by the end of March will be offered a bridging payment for 75% of their claim value.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the 2017 <abbr title=\"National Farmers Union\">NFU<\/abbr> Conference, Andrea Leadsom said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As of today 95.5% of farmers have received their 2016 basic payment, but I recognise that if you\u2019re one of the 4,000 still waiting \u2013 you need to know when you will get paid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">So this week I secured agreement from the Treasury to offer a 75% bridging payment to anyone with outstanding payments by the end of March.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Rural Payments Agency remains focused on paying the remainder of eligible claims as promptly as possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridging payments secured for eligible farmers awaiting their full BPS payment for 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}