NHS: Procurement
(asked on 13th April 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS organisations complied with the 30 day target for the payment of subcontractors set by the Government in the last period for which figures are available.
Figures on the number of National Health Service bodies recording instances of expenditure incurred under the ‘Late payment of commercial debt (Interest) Act 1998’, where it was incurred with non-NHS bodies, in the last three years, are provided in the following table.
Sector | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 |
NHS Trust | 19 | 21 | 18 |
NHS Foundation Trust | 9 | 14 | 15 |
Clinical Commissioning Groups1 | 0 | N/A | N/A |
Primary Care Trusts2 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Strategic Health Authorities2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 33 | 35 | 33 |
- Did not exist in 2012/13
- Did not exist after 2012/13
Figures on the number of NHS bodies meeting the 30 day payment target for subcontractors, where the information is available from the central accounts returns made to the Department are shown in the following table.
Sector | NHS Trusts |
Entities meeting Target | 25 |
Total Entities in sector | 99 |