Request

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your Accounts Payable department:

For all invoices where the payment date is greater than 30 days after the invoice date.

Invoice payment data for all trade suppliers, paid from April 1, 2017 – October 31, 2021 to include the following data fields:

• Supplier name

• Invoice date (date on invoice)

• Supplier invoice reference

• Invoice number (your system reference)

• Date invoice was paid

• Invoice gross value

Please provide the information as a mail attachment to the address listed below in electronic form in a CSV or TXT file, alternatively an excel format would be acceptable. The columns can be in any order providing they are headed / titled accordingly.

This information should be readily available from your finance systems but if there are any difficulties in producing or sending the data, e.g. file size, please advise and I will provide any assistance necessary.

Response

A copy of the information is attached.

Please note that this request and our response is published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-24422

Data Queries

If you have any queries regarding the data provided, or if you plan on publishing the data please contact nhsbsa.foirequests@nhs.net ensuring you quote the above reference. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.

If you plan on producing a press or broadcast story based upon the data please contact nhsbsa.communicationsteam@nhs.net. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence detailed at: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the following statement: “NHSBSA Copyright 2022” This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Failure to do so is a breach of the terms of the licence.

Information you receive which is not subject to NHSBSA Copyright continues to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated. Please obtain their permission before reproducing any third party (non NHSBSA Copyright) information.