Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of suppliers to his Department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies are signatories to the Prompt Payment Code.
The Department is a signatory to the Prompt Payment Code and has done so on behalf of its agencies and non-departmental public bodies.
However, no data is collected centrally on the proportion of suppliers providing goods and/or services to the Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies, who have signed up to this code.