Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of undisputed invoices his Department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies paid within five days in the most recent period for which figures are available.

Cabinet Office uses standard government Terms and Conditions that places an obligation on Suppliers to pay subcontractors within a timescale that does not exceed 30 days from receipt of a valid invoice. The Cabinet Office does not make payments direct to sub-contractors. A list of Prompt Payment Code signatories is available here: http://ppc.promptpaymentcode.org.uk/ppc/signatory_paged.a4d

Prompt Payment Statistics can be found in the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14.