FOI Request Invoice Payment Times

Request  101001421356

Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to know the average time taken for the council to pay invoices submitted to it by suppliers. I would like this data for the year ending March 31 2016.

If the yearend (March 31) makes responding to this request difficult, please base the response on the year end in the council’s latest annual report/financial accounts.

Response 09-02-2017

Moray Council does not collect the data you are seeking so in accordance with Section 17 the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002,  this information is not held. However like all Local Authorities we do collect and publish payment performance information.  This is presented as the percentage of invoices paid within 30 days.  For the financial year 2015/2016, this was 89.85% for Moray Council.  This indicator is subject to parameters set by CIPFA, more information can be found on their website.

The Local Government Benchmarking Performance Indicator is published in a number of places on the Council's web Performance pages, see references below -

Page 4 Procurement - Performance Indicators 2015-16 http://www.moray.gov.uk/downloads/file106666.pdf

Page 9 Corporate Services - Benchmarking - Summary Overview Report 2014/15  http://www.moray.gov.uk/minutes/data/AS20160803/10a)Appendix%20LOCAL%20GOVERNMENT%20BENCHMARKING%20FRAMEWORK%20201415%20RESULTS.pdf

Page 3 - Financial Services - Payments - Quarterly Monitoring Statements 2016/17 http://www.moray.gov.uk/downloads/file108810.pdf

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