Departmental Billing

Mr. Oaten

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many days on average (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies has taken to pay invoices from suppliers in each month since November 2008. (278910)

The average time in days taken to pay suppliers by the Department in each month since November 2008 is as follows:

*(b) Agency*
	(a) Department—CLG (including GOs)	Planning Inspectorate	Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre	Fire Service College
November 2008	9	12	21	25
December 2008	7	14	21	23
January 2009	7	12	19	25
February 2009	7	7	17	25
March 2009	8	7	17	25
April 2009	9	7	17	23
May 2009	6	8	17	26

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 18 May 2009, Official Report, column 1192W, on departmental billing, how much his Department’s non-departmental public bodies paid in interest under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 in the last three years. (282333)

This information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Volume 494: debated on Thursday 25 June 2009