{"longTitle":"A Bill to make provision to amend the statutory limits for payment of invoices; make provision for a statutory time limit for resolving payment disputes; amend interest for late payments and penalties for persistent late payments and non-compliance; prohibit specified payment practices, on-boarding and pay-to-stay; require payments becoming due under public sector construction projects to be held in project bank accounts; amend the remit, role and powers of the Small Business Commissioner in regard to late payments; provide for a duty on auditors to publish late payment data; and for connected purposes","summary":null,"sponsors":[{"member":{"memberId":4286,"name":"Lord Mendelsohn","party":"Labour","partyColour":"d50000","house":"Lords","memberPhoto":"https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Members/4286/Thumbnail","memberPage":"https://members.parliament.uk/member/4286/contact","memberFrom":"Life peer"},"organisation":null,"sortOrder":1}],"promoters":[],"petitioningPeriod":null,"petitionInformation":null,"agent":null,"billId":2568,"shortTitle":"Small Business Commissioner and Late Payments etc Bill [HL]","formerShortTitle":null,"currentHouse":"Lords","originatingHouse":"Lords","lastUpdate":"2021-05-05T12:50:29.052835","billWithdrawn":null,"isDefeated":false,"billTypeId":2,"introducedSessionId":35,"includedSessionIds":[35],"isAct":false,"currentStage":{"id":11693,"stageId":2,"sessionId":35,"description":"2nd reading","abbreviation":"2R","house":"Lords","stageSittings":[],"sortOrder":2}}