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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Cater Allen Limited paid suppliers in 15 days on average — inside its 30-day stated terms

CRN 00383032 · Financial services · 15 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Jun 2025

Dated record. The latest report covers a period ending 30 Jun 2025 and the company hasn’t filed since (it may have dropped below the reporting threshold). Treat the figures as historical.
15daysavg time to pay · H1 2025

Their H1 2025 filing put the average 15 days inside their stated 30-day term.

Their stated terms
30 days
Paid outside agreed terms
14% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
9%
Reporting period
1 Jan 2025 – 30 Jun 2025
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 7 Aug 2025

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2025 filing

Paid 15 days inside the 30-day term they state

The pattern · last 6 of 15 reports

21 → 15 days — faster across the window

The read · computed from their figures

Cater Allen Limited's H1 2025 filing put their average at 15 days against stated terms of 30 days; 14% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 9% took 61 days or longer. Filed 7 Aug 2025.

The direction is faster: from 21 days in H2 2022 to 15 now — 6 days faster across their last 6 reports.

That is 15 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 Offers e-invoicing

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Cater Allen Limited payment terms are 30 days. There are no contracts for which there are longer payment terms and there have been no changes to this arrangement in the period.

Dispute resolution

If a supplier has a dispute regarding payment, there is an established escalation and investigation process in place. Should the supplier remain unhappy at the outcome of the initial escalation and investigation, they can refer the matter to an independent body. Information regarding this process is included in the standard contract terms.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 20251514%9%7 Aug 2025
H2 2024105%0%6 Feb 2025
H1 20241312%2%9 Oct 2024
H2 20231510%3%31 Jan 2024
H1 20232124%7%18 Aug 2023
H2 20222122%10%16 Feb 2023
H1 20222282%9%2 Aug 2022
H2 2021137%4%9 Feb 2022
H1 20212116%10%2 Aug 2021
H2 20201519%0%8 Feb 2021
H1 20201212%0%28 Jul 2020
H2 2019140%0%30 Jan 2020
H1 2019286%3%26 Jul 2019
H2 20182912%6%1 Feb 2019
H1 2018217%0%31 Jul 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
30 Sept 1943
Registered office
2 TRITON SQUARE, LONDON, NW1 3AN
1 outstanding charge — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

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Quick answers · Cater Allen Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 6 days faster over the window (21 → 15 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report put the average at day 15; across their last 6 reports it ranged 10–21 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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