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Ministry of Defence supplier invoicing and payment information

MOD supplier payment performance, invoice processing and MOD contract payments.

Finance & Procurement Services Enquiry Centre

Email: dbscs-ecfinanceteam@mod.gov.uk

Contact number: 0151 242 2000

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Ministry of Defence payment performance

2023/2024

Financial Year 2023/2024 Percentage of invoices paid within 5 days Percentage of invoices paid within 30 days Total amount of liability to pay Total interest paid in quarter
First Quarter 94.13% 99.24% Not Calculable 0.00  
Second Quarter 94.08% 99.29% Not Calculable 0.00  
Third Quarter 87.35% 99.25% Not Calculable 0.00  

2022/2023

Financial Year 2022/2023 Percentage of invoices paid within 5 days Percentage of invoices paid within 30 days Total amount of liability to pay Total interest paid in quarter
First Quarter 91.51% 99.15% Not Calculable 0.00
Second Quarter 93.10% 99.11% Not Calculable 0.00
Third Quarter 90.63% 99.16% Not Calculable 0.00
Fourth Quarter 92.78% 99.28% Not Calculable 0.00

2021/2022

Financial Year 2021/2022 Percentage of invoices paid within 5 days Percentage of invoices paid within 30 days Total amount of liability to pay (from April 2022) Total interest paid in quarter
First Quarter 92.04% 99.26% Not Calculable 0.00
Second Quarter 91.87% 99.24% Not Calculable 62.88
Third Quarter 92.73% 99.35% Not Calculable 259.90
Fourth Quarter 93.11% 99.29% Not Calculable 5,132.91

2020/2021

Financial Year 2020/2021 Percentage of invoices paid within 5 days Percentage of invoices paid within 30 days Total amount of liability to pay (from April 2021)
First Quarter 88.21% 98.76% Not calculable
Second Quarter 88.17% 99.18% Not calculable
Third Quarter 92.39% 99.34% Not calculable
Fourth Quarter 83.33% 99.03% Not calculable

2019/20

Financial year 2019/2020 Percentage of invoices paid within 5 days Percentage of invoices paid within 30 days Total amount of liability to pay (from April 2020)
First quarter 96.47% 99.54% Not calculable
Second quarter 99.42% 99.57% Not calculable
Third quarter 92.93% 99.61% Not calculable
Fourth quarter 91.60% 99.19% Not calculable

2018/19

Financial year 2018/2019 Percentage of invoices paid within 5 days Percentage of invoices paid within 30 days Total amount of liability to pay (from April 2019)*
First quarter 90.83% 99.99% £65k interest paid*
Second quarter 97.38% 99.98% £114k interest paid*
Third quarter 96.22% 99.99% £104k interest paid*
Fourth quarter 97.04% 100% £132k interest paid*

*actual interest paid on late payment not total amount of liability.

Year 2017/18

The MOD is a signatory to the Prompt Payment Code and is fully committed, along with the department’s trading partners, to paying all suppliers as quickly as possible.

Since May 2010 we have been aiming to pay 80% of invoices within 5 working days. We have achieved the following performance:

Financial year 2017/2018 Percentage of invoices paid within 5 days Percentage of invoices paid within 30 days Total amount of liability to pay (from April 2018)
First quarter 94.94% 99.93% £145k paid*
Second quarter 90.13% 99.98% £157k paid
Third quarter 90.78% 99.62% Nil
Fourth quarter 90.17% 99.95% £207k paid

*from CPF system Go Live in Nov 16 to end June 2017

Year 2016/17

Financial year 2016/2017 Percentage of invoices paid within 5 days Percentage of invoices paid within 30 days Total amount of liability to pay (from April 2017)
First quarter 96.5% 99.9% Nil
Second quarter 96.88% 99.99 Nil
Third quarter 91.23% 99.04% see Year 2017/18 data
Fourth quarter 94.09% 99.61% see Year 2017/18 data

MOD introduced a new Contracting, Purchasing & Finance (CPF) system in December 2016. The implementation involved planned system downtime. This is reflected in the lower percentages of invoices paid within 5 and 30 days during Q3 and Q4. Data on liability will be updated by end April 17.

Year 2015/16

Financial year 2015/2016 Percentage of invoices paid within 5 days Percentage of invoices paid within 30 days Total amount of liability to pay (from April 2016)
First quarter 96.6% 99.9% Nil
Second quarter 97.2% 99.9% Nil
Third quarter 96.7% 99.9% Nil
Fourth quarter 93.0% 99.9% Nil

Invoice processing

Each year, we process approximately 4.2 million invoices with a total value in excess of £27-billion.

Our finance and invoicing guidance page has information to help suppliers submit invoices to DBS Finance correctly for prompt processing and payment. You will also find our contact details.

Please read the information provided thoroughly before approaching the DBS Finance Enquiry Centre.

Invoicing forms

Please see below for invoicing forms. Your contract with MOD defines the terms and conditions for payment, and advises which forms you should use for submitting your invoice.

If you need further clarification, you should check with the relevant MOD commercial branch detailed in your contract.

Revenue processing

Published 10 May 2016
Last updated 6 February 2024 + show all updates
  1. Added quarter 3 figures for 2023/24 on 06/02/2024

  2. stats added

  3. 2023/2024 First quarter table added to page

  4. Fourth Quarter calculations added to page.

  5. The Quarter three 2022/23 figures included

  6. Inclusion of 2022/2023 first and second quarter figures

  7. Included column for the total interest paid in quarter for 2021/22

  8. Quarter 3 2021/2022 figures included

  9. Update to include quarter 2 stats

  10. Included Quarter 1 figures for 2021/22

  11. Quarter 4 figures included

  12. Added 2020/21 Quarter 3 statistics.

  13. Added: 2020/21 stats.

  14. Added the second, third and fourth quarter data for 2019 to 2020.

  15. Updated for quarter of financial year 2019/20

  16. Table updated with quarter 4

  17. 3rd quarter 2018/19 included

  18. 2018/2019 information added

  19. Added 4th quarter data

  20. Information added re invoice payments

  21. 2017-2018 figures added

  22. New contact us email included

  23. Updated the Supplier Performance Data for Financial year 2016/17.

  24. Added 2016-17 Quarter 2 data.

  25. Added payment performance table for financial year 2016/2017.

  26. First published.