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To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the effectiveness of late payment reforms.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 20 Oct 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the effectiveness of late payment reforms.
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Oct 2025
Answer published
This Government is committed to tackling late payments and will introduce the most significant legislation aimed at tackling late payments in 25 years. Late payments cost the UK economy £11bn per year and close down 38 UK businesses every day.Large busine...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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