Billing
(asked on 3rd March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, 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.
The last period for which complete figures are available is the 2013-14 financial-year i.e. 12 months ended 31 March 2014. The table below details the proportion (%) of undisputed payments made, by individual body:
Body | Proportion of invoices paid within 5 days (% to nearest 1%) |
Department of Health | 95 |
Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency | 76 |
Human Tissue Authority | 95 |
Monitor | 0* |
Public Health England | 81 |
Care Quality Commission | 89 |
NHS Litigation Authority | 13 |
Health Education England | 2 |
Health Research Authority | 6 |
Health and Social Care Information Centre | 16 |
National Institute for Health & Care Excellence | 6 |
NHS Blood and Transplant | 24 |
NHS Property Services | 0 |
NHS Business Services Authority | 24 |
NHS England | 54 |
*Monitor return is 0% because it works towards paying all valid invoices within 10 working days not five. The 10-day compliance for 2013-14 was 92%.