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How long does The Medical Defence Union Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 00021708 · Administrative & support services · 17 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Jun 2026

12days
their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period
Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

Self-reported figure from their statutory filing. How this is compiled.

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On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Incorporated
23 Oct 1885
Registered office
ONE CANADA SQUARE, LONDON, E14 5GS
0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 30 Sept 2026

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 30 days. Reported average: 12.

Stated terms30d
-18 days
Reported avg12d

At a glance

The key figures

30d
their stated terms
0%
invoices paid outside terms
-23d
faster over the window
±8d
variable pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower
Faster than 89% of the 608 large companies reporting in administrative & support services.

The pattern

Getting faster

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 30d
35
16
12
27
18
12
H2 2023H1 2024H2 2024H1 2025H2 2025H1 2026

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 100% 31–60 days 0% 61+ days 0%

The read · computed from their figures

The Medical Defence Union Limited has filed 17 statutory payment periods (earliest H1 2018). Their latest report puts the average at 12 days against stated terms of 30 days.

The direction is faster: from 35 to 12 days over the window — about 23 days faster.

In the latest period 0% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 0% landed 61+ days out.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

MDU Limited adopts their suppliers’ payment terms where explicitly stated on their invoices. New suppliers are set up in the accounting system by the finance team, and the supplier payment terms are included on the supplier record. All invoices registered against a given supplier will automatically have the payment terms on that supplier’s record applied to them. Where no payment terms have been explicitly communicated by the supplier, the new supplier records will be set to ‘pay immediately’. In practice this means that the invoice will be paid, once approved, on the next weekly payment run.

Dispute resolution

With respect to contracts with suppliers, the general position is that the appropriate department managers for each supplier first attempt to resolve the dispute (the MDU point of contact varies from contract to contract). The contact would aim to deal with the dispute promptly, and in accordance with the terms of the contract. Additionally, suppliers can contact MDU’s accounts team: [email protected]

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 2026120%0%20 Jul 2026
H2 20251815%0%13 Jan 2026
H1 20252740%0%11 Jul 2025
H2 2024120%0%21 Jan 2025
H1 2024168%0%9 Jul 2024
H2 20233533%0%12 Jan 2024
H1 2023260%0%10 Jul 2023
H2 20221817%0%20 Jan 2023
H1 2022187%0%26 Jul 2022
H2 2021130%0%18 Jan 2022
H1 2021136%0%9 Jul 2021
H2 20201316%0%19 May 2021
H1 20202022%0%21 Jul 2020
H2 2019155%0%8 Jan 2020
H1 20192117%16%18 Jul 2019
H2 2018200%0%23 Jan 2019
H1 20182150%0%24 Jul 2018

Quick answers

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 23 days faster over the window (35 → 12 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest reports average around day 12, moving within about ±8 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.
Can I see what this means for my invoices?
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How UK payment reporting works

What is a Payment Practices Report?
UK companies and LLPs above a size threshold — broadly, two of: turnover over £54m, balance sheet over £27m, or more than 250 employees — must report twice a year, under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017, how quickly they actually pay suppliers: the average time to pay, the share of invoices paid in 30 days or fewer, 31 to 60 days and 61 days or longer, and their standard payment terms. Those thresholds apply to financial years beginning on or after 6 April 2025; for earlier financial years they were £36m and £18m, with the same 250-employee test.
What does "paid outside agreed terms" mean?
The share of invoices paid later than the terms in the supplier contract. If terms are 30 days and an invoice is paid on day 45, it counts as paid outside terms, regardless of the headline average.
How often is this data updated?
Each report covers a six-month period and must be filed within 30 days of that period ending, so a company's record refreshes roughly twice a year. PaidLate re-reads the register as new reports are filed.
Is this official government data?
The underlying payment figures come from the company's own statutory filings on the gov.uk payment-practices service; company-status data comes from Companies House. PaidLate calculates trends, comparisons and summaries from those records. It does not use surveys or credit-agency scores.

How this is compiled. Built from official records only: Companies House and the gov.uk payment-practices service. The payment figures are self-reported — companies over the size threshold must file them by law and the board signs them off. No credit-agency data. The numbers are theirs; the plain-English read is ours. This is information compiled from public records under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — not a credit rating and not advice.

The 31-day comparison figure is the median across 6,185 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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