Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many individual firms received at least one payment of an invoice from his Department after a 30-day period in each quarter of 2016-17.
The number of individual firms who received at least one payment of an invoice from the Cabinet Office after a 30-day period, in each quarter of 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19 is set out below.
2016/17 | Quarter 1 | 76 |
Quarter 2 | 75 | |
Quarter 3 | 96 | |
Quarter 4 | 101 |
2017/18 | Quarter 1 | 75 |
Quarter 2 | 104 | |
Quarter 3 | 150 | |
Quarter 4 | 195 |
2018/19 | Quarter 1 | 227 |
Quarter 2 | 197 |
In the same period, the number of suppliers paid has increased from 491 in Q1 of 16/17 to 900 in Quarter 1 of 2018/19.
The move to a new shared service platform in May 2017 presented a number of operational issues. We have been working hard to rectify the underlying issues and have implemented a number of improvements as part of a coordinated programme of work. These has led to improvements in our payment performance data with December data showing 82% of invoices paid within 5 days.