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 invoices from UK suppliers his Department paid within 10 days of receipt between September 2024 and February 2025.
The department’s prompt payment performance is published quarterly at the following website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/defra-prompt-payment-data-april-2015-to-march-2024
In the most recent published period, covering October, November and December 2024, 99.4% of the payments were to UK suppliers.