Departmental Billing

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many and what proportion of invoices submitted to his Department have been paid within 10 days in each month since October 2008; and if he will make a statement. (307964)

I refer the hon. Member to my reply to the hon. Member for Hertford and Stortford (Mr. Prisk) on 15 June 2009, Official Report, column 72W. The figures since June 2009 are:

*Invoices paid within 10 days*
	Number	Percentage
June 2009	4,009	86.0
July 2009	4,195	91.1
August 2009	3,689	93.5
September 2009	3,866	96.6
October 2009	4,120	95.2
November 2009	4,038	96.9

Volume 503: debated on Wednesday 6 January 2010