Question follow-through · 56607
Small Businesses: Billing
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of e-invoicing for small businesses on reducing payment times.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of e-invoicing for small businesses on reducing payment times.
4 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to tackling late payments, which can be a major obstacle for small businesses. In September 2024 we announced new measures including a new Fair Payment Code (launched in December 2024), legislation requiring large companies to ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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