Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what requirements his Department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies place on suppliers in respect of their payment terms to subcontractors as part of their standard terms and conditions.
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.