Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what requirements her 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.

The Department for Education’s standard terms and conditions contain a clause requiring contractors to pay subcontractors within 10 days where the subcontractor is an SME, or 30 days either where the subcontractor is not an SME or both the contractor and the subcontractor are SMEs.