Small Businesses: Billing
(asked on 25th June 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many late payment cases the Small Business Commissioner has successfully tackled in each year since the office was created; and what the value of recovered payments has been in each year since its creation.
This question was answered on 30th June 2020
Since its creation in December 2017, the Small Business Commissioner has handled a total of 101 cases and recovered a total of £7,353,234.70, broken down as follows:
- January 2018 – December 2018: £443,023.80 (10 cases);
- January 2019 – December 2019: £5,993,178.99 (52 cases); and
- January 2020 – 25 June 2020: £917,031.91 (39 cases).