Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

How long does Imperial London Hotels Limited(the) take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 00421257 · Accommodation & food · 18 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Apr 2026

32days

their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period

Around averagevs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

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

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 10 Oct 1946
Registered office: DIRECTORS' OFFICE ROYAL NATIONAL HOTEL, LONDON, WC1H 0DG

2 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 Jan 2027

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 30 days. Reported average: 32.

Stated terms30d

+2 days

Reported avg32d

At a glance

The key figures

30d

their stated terms

invoices paid outside terms

±8d

variable pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower

Faster than 57% of the 148 large companies reporting in accommodation & food.

The pattern

Holding steady

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 30d

H2 2023H1 2024H2 2024H1 2025H2 2025H1 2026

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 90% 31–60 days 8% 61+ days 2%

The read · computed from their figures

Imperial London Hotels Limited(the) has filed 18 statutory payment periods (earliest H2 2017). Their latest report puts the average at 32 days against stated terms of 30 days.

The pattern is steady — their reported average moves within about ±8 days period to period.

In the latest period 1% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 2% landed 61+ days out.

What they tell their suppliers

Offers e-invoicing 1% of invoices in dispute

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

We have a standard 30 days payment terms for majority of suppliers unless advised otherwise by our suppliers in which case it would be 14 days or 7 days.

Dispute resolution

If a supplier has a payment complaint they will contact us advising that they have an outstanding invoice or send us monthly statements. Most suppliers are regular so have our email address and send us invoices which automatically get registered on our accounting system. The majority also send us statements which we reconcile with our system. Short deliveries are usually reported to the supplier on the day of the delivery by Purchasing Teams within our properties. Price disputes are also addressed within 7 days and usually with the Purchasing Manager. If for a different department then each department has a “Purchase approver” who is responsible to confirm deliveries and the prices, and they will raise the dispute with the supplier and our Purchasing Manager. Invoices are on hold until

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2026	32	1%	2%	28 May 2026
H2 2025	24	2%	2%	5 Nov 2025
H1 2025	17	2%	0%	8 May 2025
H2 2024	17	2%	0%	25 Nov 2024
H1 2024	33	4%	0%	15 May 2024
H2 2023	33	4%	0%	7 Nov 2023
H1 2023	33	4%	0%	16 May 2023
H2 2022	33	4%	0%	30 Nov 2022
H1 2022	33	5%	0%	30 May 2022
H2 2021	33	5%	0%	7 Dec 2021
H1 2021	33	5%	0%	11 May 2021
H2 2020	33	5%	0%	4 Nov 2020
H1 2020	33	5%	0%	14 May 2020
H2 2019	33	5%	0%	12 Nov 2019
H1 2019	33	5%	0%	2 May 2019
H2 2018	33	5%	0%	8 Nov 2018
H1 2018	33	5%	0%	24 May 2018
H2 2017	33	5%	0%	16 Mar 2018

Quick answers

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average is steady — within about ±8 days period to period, around 32 days.

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest reports average around day 32, moving within about ±8 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 6,185 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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