Bit of a late update but following up on this due to us now having caught up with movehistorydata I have now found by running the following,
Select Name, Type, Thestate, Status, Starttime, Endtime From Esp_Rtwob
Where Thestate = 'READY'
and STARTTIME like '%20180522%'
that all the applications that have an issue return an entry in that sql query and the column "thestate" contains the word READY. Is this something we could update via an SQL update or are we still looking at a cold start to clear it?