Asked by: Lord Harrison (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the financial liability of local authorities associated with late payments of suppliers' invoices which will result from the transposition of the European Union directive on late payments.
Answered by Lord Wallace of Saltaire - Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Cabinet Office)
This information is not held centrally. However, in implementing Lord Young’s recommendations to open up public sector procurement to SMEs, increase transparency and simplify the government market, we are bringing in new measures so that from 2015 all public bodies will be required to publish the interest they have paid due to late payments. From 2016-17 they will have to calculate their liabilities and publish them annually.
Asked by: Lord Harrison (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they will publish their response to the consultation on the draft regulations transposing the new European Union procurement directives in the United Kingdom.
Answered by Lord Wallace of Saltaire - Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Cabinet Office)
The Government’s consultation on implementing the 2014 EU Procurement Directives took place between 19 September and 17 October 2014. We expect to publish our response early in the New Year.