To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 14 May 2009, Official Report, column 917W, on departmental billing, how much his Department's non-departmental public bodies have paid in interest under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 in the last three years. (282326)

No payments of interest for late payment of commercial debts were made by Foreign and Commonwealth Office non-departmental public bodies in the last three years.