Question follow-through · 76216
Small Businesses: Billing
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the barriers faced by small businesses in using the tribunal system to recover late payments.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 18 Sept 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the barriers faced by small businesses in using the tribunal system to recover late payments.
11 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Sept 2025
Answer published
We have not made an assessment of the barriers faced by small business using the courts and tribunal system to recover late payment.DBT has launched a consultation on late payment which includes proposals to provide the Small Business Commissioner with po...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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