Billing
(asked on 3rd March 2015) - View Source
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 suppliers to her Department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies are signatories to the Prompt Payment Code.
This table sets out the proportion (%) of undisputed invoices paid within five days in Core Defra, its executive agencies and its Non-Departmental Public Bodies in the period April to December 2014.
Organisation | % |
Core Defra | 98% |
Executive Agencies: | |
Animal and Plant Health Agency | 97% |
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science | 100% |
Food and Environment Research Agency | 74% |
Rural Payments Agency | 87% |
Veterinary Medicines Directorate | 98% |
Executive Non-Departmental Public Bodies: | |
Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (see Note) | 0% |
Consumer Council for Water | 94% |
Environment Agency | 95% |
Joint Nature Conservation Committee | 54% |
Marine Management Organisation | 99% |
National Forest Company | 64% |
Natural England | 99% |
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | 71% |
Sea Fish Industry Authority | 52% |
Note: The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board does not attempt to make payments within 5 days, but rather pays within agreed terms, which are 30 days as standard.
Neither the Core Department nor its executive agencies or Non-Departmental Public Bodies routinely capture or monitor whether their suppliers are signatories to the Prompt Payment Code.
Neither the Core Department nor its executive agencies or Non-Departmental Public Bodies routinely capture or monitor whether their suppliers pay their subcontractors within 30 days, where such subcontractors are employed.