Question follow-through · 54579
Small Businesses: Billing
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the tribunal system in supporting small businesses facing late payments.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 22 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 3 Jun 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the tribunal system in supporting small businesses facing late payments.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Government understands the impact late payments has on small businesses and the important role the tribunal system plays in helping to recover late payments, alongside the Office of the Small Business Commissioner which was set up to help small busine...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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