Tag: Nick de Bois

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick de Bois on 2014-06-24.

To ask the Attorney General, how many creditors remained unpaid by his Department as at 1 June 2014; and of those how many have been waiting for (a) 45, (b) 60, (c) 75 and (d) more than 75 days.

Oliver Heald

The table below shows the number of Treasury Solicitor’s Department (TSol) invoices that were potentially outstanding to suppliers from the date that an invoice was received on the 1 June. This table includes all invoices including those that cannot yet be authorised as the invoice was disputed or where further information was requested from the supplier.

The majority of TSol supplier invoices relate to disbursement spending on cases and in particular work undertaken by counsel.

TSol*	46-60 days	61-75 days	76 days or more
Number of suppliers	138	31	34

* Tsol data also includes Attorney General’s Office and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) records a creditor when a valid invoice is received by the CPS’ payment centre and the following table shows the total number of creditors for any amount that remained unpaid on 1 June 2014.

CPS	46-60 days	61-75 days	76 days or more
Number of creditors	6	3	12

The table below shows the number of creditors that remained unpaid by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) on 1 June 2014 for (a) 45, (b) 60, (c) 76 days and over.

SFO	46-60 days	61-75 days	76 days or more
Number of creditors	6	1	6

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick de Bois on 2014-06-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many creditors remained unpaid by his Department on 1 June 2014; and of those, how many had been unpaid for (a) 45 days, (b) 60 days, (c) 75 days and (d) more than 76 days.

Brandon Lewis

My Department has a cross-government target of paying 80 per cent of invoices within 5 days of receipt. In 2013-14, we paid 84 per cent of invoices within that target.

As of 1 June 2014, there was just one outstanding creditor unpaid, in each case, for (a) 45-59 days, (b) 60-75 days and (c) over 76 days.

There were a further 24 outstanding creditors of shorter durations.

To place this in context, in 2013-14, my Department paid 11,937 invoices.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick de Bois on 2014-06-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what capital funding has been made available to free schools in Enfield North constituency since May 2010.

Mr Edward Timpson

The Department for Education publishes the final capital costs for all free schools online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick de Bois on 2014-06-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for the Middle East peace process of then-Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh’s statement in April 2014 that kidnapping Israelis was a top priority on the agenda of Hamas and the Palestinian resistance.

Hugh Robertson

The statement made by the then-Hamas Prime Minister in April 2014 was deplorable and only serves to perpetuate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The new Palestinian interim technocratic government contains no Hamas members, and has signed up to the international community’s principles: non-violence, a negotiated two state solution, and an acceptance of all previous agreements and obligations, including Israel’s legitimate right to exist. We now look to the new government to demonstrate these commitments through its actions as well as its words.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick de Bois on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2014, Official Report, column 228W, on billing, what the value is of the sums being claimed by outstanding creditors at 31 May 2014.

Mr Francis Maude

The value of sums being claimed by non-government creditors at 31 May 2014, can be found in the table below. All unpaid invoices are in dispute.

Number of days unpaid	Value
45 – 59	£120,891.87
60-74	£293,868.79
75 and over	£334,974.27

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick de Bois on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2014, Official Report, column 241W, on billing, what the value was of all outstanding legacy creditors on 1 June 2014.

Dr Daniel Poulter

As at 1 June 2014, the value of outstanding legacy creditors was £3,237,153.15.

Following the abolition of primary care trusts (PCTs) and strategic health authorities (SHAs) on 31 March 2013, legacy PCT and SHA finance teams remained in place until 31 August 2013 to process creditor payments relating to pre 1 April 2013. Creditor payments outstanding at 31 August 2013 were transferred to successor organisations, including the Department. The above amount remains outstanding because of due diligence taking place on creditor payments in order to mitigate the risk of making fraudulent or duplicate payments.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick de Bois on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many apprenticeships there were in London on 31 May (a) 2010 and (b) 2014.

Matthew Hancock

Information on Apprenticeship starts and participation by Region are published in Supplementary Tables to a Statistical First Release:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/324021/apprenticeships-starts-by-geography-learner-demographics-and-sector-subject-area.xls

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/296370/Nov2013_Apprenticeships_Region_Participation.xls

Apprenticeship data are presented by academic year. Final data for the full 2013/14 academic year will be published in November 2014.

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