Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 20 March 2015 (HLWS406), Prompt Payment – Implementing the Duty on Large Companies to Report on Payment Practices and Policies, whether payment practices and policies were incorporated into public sector contracts, including those relating to HS2, Network Rail and the passenger train operating companies, between (1) government departments and agencies and Carillion, and (2) Carillion and its sub-contractors; whether government departments and agencies monitored any divergence from those practices and policies; if so, which; and what payment terms, expressed in days, were incorporated into those contracts, broken down by sector or major contract.

Through the Public Contract Regulations 2015, public sector buyers must include 30-day payment terms in new public sector contracts; and require that this payment term be passed down the supply chain.