Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what evaluation they have undertaken of the Public Procurement Review Service; what the value of unpaid invoices reported to the Service was in 2018; and what proportion of those have now been resolved.
In 2018 overdue payment cases reported to the service totalled £2,333,042.69. The total amount that have been resolved to date is £1,779,237.73. A total of £303,001.18 have subsequently been rejected or collapsed due the cases not being within the scope and remit of the service. Of the cases reported in 2018 a total value of £250,803.78 is outstanding.