HC Deb 08 December 2003 vol 415 cc225-6W
Brian Cotter

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many claims for statutory interest payments have been submitted to private companies under the terms of the Late payment of Debt Act 1998; how many claims were met; and what the total value was of such payments in each year since the Act has been in operation. [141596]

Alun Michael

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by the Minister with responsibility for small business and enterprise, my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, South (Nigel Griffiths), on December 3,Official Report, column 102W.