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Department of Health and Social Care prompt payment of suppliers

Proportion of payments made within 5 and 30 working days.

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Department of Health and Social Care
Published:
20 March 2013
Last updated:
5 May 2026
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  1. Updated 'Department of Health and Social Care prompt payment of suppliers quarterly data' to add figures for July to September 2025.

  2. Updated 'Department of Health and Social Care prompt payment of suppliers quarterly data' to add quarter 1 figures for the 2025 to 2026 financial year.

  3. Updated 'Department of Health and Social Care prompt payment of suppliers quarterly data' to add quarter 4 figures for the 2024 to 2025 financial year.

  4. Updated 'Department of Health and Social Care prompt payment of suppliers quarterly data' to add quarter 3 figures for the 2024 to 2025 financial year. Corrected figures for quarters 1 and 2 for the 2024 to 2025 financial year owing to an error in the reporting model.

  5. Updated 'Department of Health and Social Care prompt payment of suppliers quarterly data' to add quarter 2 figures for the 2024 to 2025 financial year.

  6. Updated 'Department of Health and Social Care prompt payment of suppliers quarterly data' to add quarter 1 figures for the 2024 to 2025 financial year.

  7. Updated 'Department of Health and Social Care prompt payment of suppliers quarterly data' to add quarter 4 figures for the 2023 to 2024 financial year.

  8. Updated 'Department of Health and Social Care prompt payment of suppliers quarterly data' to add quarter 3 figures for the 2023 to 2024 financial year.

  9. Added quarter 2 figures for the 2023 to 2024 financial year. Restated quarters 1 to 4 figures for 2022 to 2023 and quarter 1 figures for 2023 to 2024 due to excluding payments to other government departments previously included and updated interest rates for late payment liability.

  10. Added quarter 1 figures for the 2023 to 2024 financial year.

  11. Updated 'Department of Health and Social Care prompt payment of suppliers quarterly data' to correct the 'Financial year 2022 to 2023' listed year for 'Jan to March' to 2023.

  12. Added quarter 4 row to the 'Financial year 2022 to 2023' table.

  13. Added quarter 1, 2 and 3 figures for the 2022 to 2023 financial year.

  14. Added quarterly figures for financial years 2020 to 2021 and 2021 to 2020 to complete these data sets. Added 'late payment interest liability' column to financial years 2020 to 2021, and 2021 to 2022.

  15. Added quarter 4 figures for the 2019 to 2020 financial year, and quarters 1 and 2 figures for 2020 to 2021 financial year.

  16. Added quarter 3 figures for the 2019 to 2020 financial year.

  17. Added quarter 2 figures for the 2019 to 2020 financial year. Updated quarter 1 figures for the 2019 to 2020 financial year and quarter 4 figures for the 2018 to 2019 financial year.

  18. Added quarter 4 figures for the 2018 to 2019 financial year and quarter 1 figures for the 2019 to 2020 financial year.

  19. Added Q2 and Q3 figures for 2018 to 2019.

  20. Added Q1 figures for 2018 to 2019.

  21. Added Q4 figures for 2017 to 2018.

  22. Added Q3 figures for financial year 2017 to 2018.

  23. Added Q2 figures for 2017 to 2018.

  24. Quarterly figures added for the 4th quarter of financial year 2016 to 2017.

  25. Added figures for Q3 of the financial year 2016 to 2017.

  26. Added figures for Q1 and 2 (Apr to Sept) of the financial year 2016 to 2017.

  27. Added figures for Q4 (Jan to Mar) of the financial year 2015 to 2016.

  28. Added quarterly data for the financial year 2015 to 2016.

  29. Added data for January 2016.

  30. Added data for December 2015.

  31. Added data for November 2015

  32. Data has been updated to include figures for 10 days and 30 days. Some data had been incorrectly inputted. It has now been corrected.

  33. Added data for August.

  34. Added data for May, June and July

  35. Updated with data on how promptly DH paid its suppliers for January to April 2015.

  36. Prompt payment figures for November and December 2014 have been added

  37. Prompt payment figures for October 2014 have been added

  38. Prompt payment figures for September 2014 have been added

  39. Prompt payment figures for August 2014 have been added

  40. Added prompt payment data for June.

  41. Added prompt payment data for May

  42. Added prompt payment data for April

  43. DH prompt payment of suppliers data for March 2014 added.

  44. Data for January 2014 added

  45. Date for December 2013 has been added

  46. Added November data

  47. Department of Health prompt payment of suppliers data for October has been added

  48. Updated to add data from September

  49. Prompt payment figures have been added for August

  50. Updated with information for June 2013.

  51. Information updated by including figure for April 2013

  52. First published.

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Details

Quarterly data showing the percentage of suppliers paid within 5 days and 30 days of the Department of Health and Social Care receiving an invoice, from the financial year 2015 to 2016 onwards.

Monthly data showing the percentage of suppliers paid within 5 days, 10 days and 30 days of the Department of Health and Social Care receiving an invoice was recorded until the end of 2015.

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