Question follow-through · 18414
Small Businesses: Billing
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what budget his Department has allocated to the creation of the award tiers as part of the new Fair Payment Code.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 6 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2024 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what budget his Department has allocated to the creation of the award tiers as part of the new Fair Payment Code.
11 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Fair Payment Code is administered by the Office of Small Business Commissioner on behalf of the Department of Business and Trade. The Office of the Small Business Commissioner is grant in aid funded by the Department and in 2023/24 received £1.148m in...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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