The government should lead by example on prompt payment

By Chloë McCulloch2019-11-13T08:36:00

Is it fair for the government to criticise tier 1s on poor payment practices when as a client it is guilty of the same?

Main contractors are the villains, suppliers the victims. That’s been the view on late payments to the construction industry’s supply chain for years.

Back in April a crackdown caught everyone’s attention: the likes of Balfour Beatty, Laing O’Rourke and Interserve were suspended from the Prompt Payment Code (PPC), a code of practice set up by the government in 2008.

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