Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Baroness Wall of New Barnet Excerpts

Tuesday 23rd October 2012 Lords Chamber

[Lord Wallace of Saltaire]

I suspect that the answer is that because there are so many bills that have to be paid it would take a great deal of time, effort and cost to acquire that information.

[Baroness Wall of New Barnet]

My Lords, does the noble Lord take assurance from the fact that, certainly in the health service, we have penalties for not paying small and medium-sized businesses first, before we do anything else, no matter where we are in the budget? I think that that ought to apply perhaps in other places as well. I had intended to save my question for the next debate but I just could not resist saying that.