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Invoices that were not paid within 30 days

Date released
19 September 2023
Request number
202307022
Release of information under
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)

Information requested

Please may you provide me, in Microsoft Excel or an equivalent electronic format, with a list of invoices that were not paid within 30 days for the last 6 financial years (2017/18 to 2022/23 inclusive) which would feed into the Regulation 113 Notice you are required to publish each year as part of your obligations under The Public Contracts Regulations 2015, with the following information for each invoice (where available):

  1. The name of the Supplier
  2. Supplier email address
  3. Supplier company registration number
  4. Supplier postal address
  5. Supplier telephone number
  6. Supplier website
  7. The date of the invoice
  8. The invoice reference
  9. The gross value of the Invoice
  10. The date the invoice should have been paid by
  11. The actual payment date of the invoice
  12. The total amount of interest liability due to late payment of the invoice
  13. The total amount of interest paid to the supplier due to late payment of the invoice.

Information released

We confirm that under s.1 of the FOIA, we hold some of the information relevant to your request.

Please find enclosed a spreadsheet covering the information requested in points 1, 7, 8, 9, 12 and 13 (supplier name, date of invoice, invoice reference, gross value of the invoice, amount of interest liability due to the late payment of the invoice, and amount of interest paid to the supplier due to the late payment of invoice).

As we have provided the supplier names, we believe that the information for points 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (supplier email address, supplier company registration number, supplier postal address, supplier telephone number and supplier website) can be found via web search and is therefore reasonably accessible to you by other means. We have therefore withheld this information under s.21(1) of the FOIA.

For the information requested in point 10, we do not record the date the invoice should have been paid by, however anticipate that the expected date for payment was 30 days from the “invoice creation” date.

As above, we do not hold the information for point 11 in the way that has been requested and has therefore not been provided however we have included turnaround time in days which we hope is useful.

Exemptions applied

s.21

PIT (Public Interest Test) if applicable

N/A