Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

BP Chemicals Limited paid suppliers in 60 days on average — within its stated 45–60 day terms

CRN 00194971 · Manufacturing · 7 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Jun 2021

Dated record. The latest report covers a period ending 30 Jun 2021 and the company hasn’t filed since (it may have dropped below the reporting threshold). Treat the figures as historical.

60daysavg time to pay · H1 2021

Their H1 2021 filing put the average 15 days past the shortest term they state (45 days), still within their 60-day upper term.

Their stated terms: 45–60 days
Paid outside agreed terms: 43% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days: 36%
Reporting period: 1 Jan 2021 – 30 Jun 2021
Source: their gov.uk filing, filed 27 Jul 2021

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2021 filing

Paid within their stated range — 60 against 45–60 days

PAIDLATE · terms vs the clockdays to pay · 0–65

avg 60d

0 days65 days

reported avg 60 days their filed terms 45–60 days UK median 31 days · n = 6,104 recent filers

Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices

within 30 days 21% 31–60 days 43% 61+ days 36%

Source: their statutory Payment Practices Report #47283, period 1 Jan 2021 – 30 Jun 2021, filed 27 Jul 2021 · gov.uk payment-practices service

BP Chemicals Limited paid within its stated range, 15 days past the shortest term. 43% of invoices still went outside agreed terms; 36% reached 61 days or more. Self-reported in their statutory H1 2021 filing.

The pattern · last 6 of 7 reports

49 → 60 days — slower across the window

PAIDLATE · the patternavg days per report

Last 6 of 7 filed reports · linear day scale · every period is in the table below · Source: gov.uk payment-practices service

11 days slower across the window. From 49 days in H2 2018 to 60 in the H1 2021 filing; the dashed line marks the 45-day term they state.

The read · computed from their figures

BP Chemicals Limited's H1 2021 filing put their average at 60 days against stated terms of 45–60 days; 43% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 36% took 61 days or longer. Filed 27 Jul 2021.

The direction is slower: from 49 days in H2 2018 to 60 now — 11 days slower across their last 6 reports.

That is 7 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

What they tell their suppliers

Payment code: The Prompt Payment Code

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Standard contractual terms for the payment to suppliers is 45 days.

Dispute resolution

In the event that the parties are unable to resolve a dispute, the dispute will be resolved by the English courts.

Other information

Payment statistics disclosed in this report can be affected by a number of different factors including payments made to other BP group companies which are included within the data disclosed. Invoices are often reported as due but not paid within agreed terms because contract payments due on weekends or bank holidays are typically paid on the following business day and the company typically initiates payments in batches, on a daily basis; where this is the case payments will normally be received by the supplier within a few days of the due date.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2021	60	43%	36%	27 Jul 2021
H2 2020	44	11%	10%	25 Jan 2021
H1 2020	48	12%	11%	29 Jul 2020
H2 2019	48	14%	14%	29 Jan 2020
H1 2019	46	14%	12%	29 Jul 2019
H2 2018	49	18%	14%	30 Jan 2019
H1 2018	52	17%	14%	27 Jul 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 9 Jan 1924
Registered office: CHERTSEY ROAD, MIDDLESEX, TW16 7BP

2 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 60-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 60-day vs a 45-day payment cycle.

≈ £23,500

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 60-day cycle — about £5,900 more than the same account would carry at 45-day terms.

Late Payment Act. The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 lets a supplier charge statutory interest and fixed compensation on invoices paid past agreed terms. Work out what a late invoice is worth → Whether it applies depends on your contract — check with an adviser.

Quick answers · BP Chemicals Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 11 days slower over the window (49 → 60 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest filed report put the average at day 60; across their last 6 reports it ranged 44–60 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.

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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 6,104 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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