Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent steps her Department has taken to help reduce the practice of late payments being made to small and medium-sized enterprises.

Government is tackling the culture of late payments with measures including Payment Practices Reporting, the Small Business Commissioner and Prompt Payment Code.

We are currently undertaking a Payment and Cash Flow review which will set out the actions we will take to ensure we have the right approach to support businesses on payment issues.