Response 4100979

Response to request for information

Reference

4100979

Response date

25 September 2026

Request

Please provide the total amount paid by the council in late payment interest, fees, penalties, or other charges resulting from the late payment of invoices between April 2025 and most recent date available.

Please provide the total amount, and number of late payments if easily available.

Response

Since April 2025 the authority has paid £1040.00 in late payment fees.

The authority pays it suppliers based on 2 general terms these are Immediate payment-which means as soon as the invoice is either matched against a fully receipted Purchase Order or, approved by the department it will be picked up on the next payment run or 21 days from the date of the invoice. We therefore don't have record the number paid outside of the suppliers terms. 

We do record the number of invoices paid outside of our internal Performance indicators which is 30 days from the date of receipt.

• During 2025/26 Financial Year we paid a total of 7,233 invoices, of which 316 were paid outside of the internal Performance Indicator without a known valid reason, (dispute, awaiting credit etc).
• During 2026/27 (5 months April to August) we have paid a total of 2977 invoices, of which 43 were paid outside of the internal Performance Indicator without a known valid reason.