Asked by: Nick de Bois (Conservative - Enfield North)
Question to the Attorney General:
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.
Answered by 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 |