Chris Bowen (Prospect, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That this House:

(1)

notes that the Commonwealth’s Procurement Guidelines include a 30 Day Payment Policy for small business;

(2)

notes that the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Department of Defence, and the Department of Finance and Administration all have financial systems that do not even collect data in relation to payments made to small business;

(3)

notes that for the 2004-2005 financial year the Federal Government has made over 100,000 payments outside the mandatory 30 Day Payment Policy; and

(4)

calls on the Prime Minister to bring all Commonwealth departments into line and enforce the mandatory payment policy and notes that, as a first step, departments should be keeping records of their payments to small businesses within the 30 day timeframe. (Notice given 23 May 2006.)

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