PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Billing (29 November 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of payments by his Department to small businesses are made on time and in accordance with the prompt payment code.

Asked by:
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office aims to comply with the prompt payment code for all support. In the second quarter of this financial year (July-September), we paid 84.25 % of invoices within 5 days, and 95.45 % of invoices within 30 days.

Answered by:
Sir Alan Duncan (Conservative)
6 December 2016