Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of undisputed invoices his Department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies paid within five days in the last period for which figures are available.

Over the period 1 April to 31 December 2014, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and its Trading Funds paid 93.73% of undisputed invoices within five working days against the 80% target.

The MOD processes over four million invoices a year totalling some £26 billion. Its performance (including its Trading Funds) on making payments to suppliers is routinely recorded in its Annual Report and Accounts each year.