Pay late, pay up

Wake Up to Money

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4.4 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Will Bain looks into a new Government announcement aimed at helping small businesses. It could see companies who persistently pay invoices late face fines. How big a problem is it, and will the plans actually make a difference? And the England and Wales Cricket Board has confirmed the sale of six teams in The Hundred, with more than half a billion pounds set to be pumped into the domestic game - but is it sustainable?

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.5	Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:08.5	Hello morning, welcome to Wake Up to Money.
0:10.8	On the programme this morning, we get our teeth into the latest government announcement
0:14.4	aimed at trying to help small businesses by fining companies who consistently pay their suppliers late.
0:21.2	How big a problem is it?
0:22.5	And will the plans actually make a difference?
0:24.0	We'll be taking a look at that.
0:25.4	Shares in Microsoft and Meta have soared after the two big tech giants report better
0:30.3	than expected financial results.
0:32.0	We'll be talking about that in just a moment as well and how AI and cloud computing
0:36.4	are pushing those sales once again.
0:38.5	And we'll be talking cricket. The England and Wales cricket board has confirmed the sale of
0:42.2	six of the teams in the hundred with more than half a billion pounds set to be pumped into
0:47.7	the domestic game. So we'll try and look at where that money might go. A little bit later on here on
0:52.0	Wake Up to Money with Will Bade. Yeah, morning.
0:56.9	Welcome to Wake Up to Money on Thursday, the 31st of July. Just on 5 o'clock in the morning. We're
1:02.0	with you this morning. Lots to get to. Some more trade deals struck before that deadline on Friday as well
1:09.2	that President Trump has set South Korea, the latest of the big economies to have signed one of those.
1:13.6	We're going to look at what's been going on with this flight disruption yesterday caused by the National Air Traffic Control outage and what might happen with that.
1:21.6	And yeah, this new sort of plan by the government that they're rolling out today was called a small business plan.
1:26.6	It looks a lot more kind of focused really on this issue specifically of late payments.
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