Question to the Home Office:

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

A 30 day prompt payment clause is included within Home Office standard long-form Terms and Conditions and is applicable to contracts above the EU threshold. The clause, which is extracted from Home Office standard long form Terms and Conditions for the provision of services, is set out below.

1.1 Where the Contractor enters into a sub-contract with a supplier or contractor for the purpose of performing its obligations under the Contract, it shall ensure that a provision is included in such a sub-contract which requires payment to be made of all sums due by the Contractor to the sub-contractor within a specified period not exceeding 30 days from the receipt of a valid invoice.