To ask the Solicitor General if she will list the occasions on which her Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies failed to pay valid invoices within 30 days or after the agreed credit period within financial year 2001–02. [104314]
Crown Prosecution ServiceDuring financial year 2001–02 the Crown Prosecution Service failed to pay 13,490 out of a total of 233,126 valid invoices within 30 days or after the agreed credit period, which represents 5.8 per cent. of the invoices processed.
Serious Fraud Office
The information and detail is not available in the format requested without disproportionate cost.
However, the Serious Fraud Office paid 93.4 per cent. of all invoices within terms or 30 clays, if no terms were specified, for the financial year 2001–02.
Treasury Solicitor's Department
The prompt payment performance of the Treasury Solicitor's Department, Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate is published each year in line with other Government Departments. For the 2001–02 financial year 97 per cent. of invoices received were paid within the 30 day period.
The total number of invoices received was 10,518 of which 10,150 were paid within 30 days. The remaining 368 (3 per cent.) were paid outside of the 30 day period. Listing each invoice individually would require
extraction of details at disproportionate cost but the breakdown of these invoices by calendar month is as follows:
Date
| Number of invoices
|
| April 2001 | 74 |
| May 2001 | 18 |
| June 2001 | 26 |
| July 2001 | 67 |
| August 2001 | 27 |
| September 2001 | 24 |
| October 2001 | 22 |
| November 2001 | 16 |
| December 2001 | 18 |
| January 2002 | 39 |
| February 2002 | 29 |
| March 2002 | 8 |
| Total | 368 |