Departmental Billing

Mr. Philip Hammond
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer of 20 May 2009, Official Report, column 1405W, 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.

Mr. Sutcliffe
Interest payments made by all our non-departmental public bodies under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 are not recorded centrally, and therefore can be identified only at disproportionate cost.