Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of payments by his Department to small businesses are made on time and in accordance with the prompt payment code.

Central Government Departments aim to pay 80% of undisputed and valid invoices within 5 days, with the remainder paid within 30 days.

The Department for Communities and Local Government paid 87.5% of such invoices within 5 days. We are unable to break the figures from our system down to show the percentage relating to payments for small businesses specifically without a significant outlay of resource and analysis.

We have published our overall payment performance data at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-forcommunities-and-local-government&publication_type=transparency-data