Originally written by Anna Jordan on Small Business
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) wants policymakers to ensure that large firms who receive Government COVID-19 financial help pay their small firm suppliers within one month.
As part of its current calls, the FSB wants to make any big corporation that receives state or Bank of England-backed finance to sign a supplier charter committing to this payment term.
It also wants it to work with the BoE to shore up supply chain finance and ensure said finance is used to pay small businesses swiftly.
The latest data from pay.uk shows that the latest sum of late payment due across the country rose 80 per cent to £23.4bn at the end of 2019.
Almost two thirds of small businesses (62 per cent) have been subject to late or frozen payments during the pandemic.
FSB’s new report, ‘Late Again: how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting payment terms for small firms’, reveals that only one in ten small business have agreed changes to payment terms with clients. That means that most of the recent examples of poor payment practices have not been formally signed off by creditors or debtors.
Despite efforts by the Government to improve procurement practices since the fall
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