Asked by: Caroline Flint (Labour - Don Valley)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of her Department's invoices for goods and services supplied by (a) private companies and (b) small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been completed on time in the last year for which figures are available; and what proportion of the (i) number and (ii) value of contracts between her Department and private companies are held by SMEs.
Answered by George Eustice
Core Defra’s prompt payment reports do not distinguish between invoices from private companies and invoices from small and medium-sized enterprises.
Information on Defra’s prompt payment performance in respect of all supplier payments in 2015-16 is available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/defra-prompt-payment-performance-report.
The latest information on the expenditure Defra bodies have with SMEs is available at:
The information on the number of contracts core Defra has with SMEs could only be provided at disproportionate cost.