Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Howden UK Group Limited pays suppliers in 19 days on average — within its stated 5–30 day terms

CRN 00725875 · Financial services · 17 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Mar 2026

19daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 14 days past the shortest term they state (5 days), still within their 30-day upper term.

Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers

Their stated terms: 5–30 days
Paid outside agreed terms: 14% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days: 5%
Reporting period: 1 Oct 2025 – 31 Mar 2026
Source: their gov.uk filing, filed 19 Apr 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid within their stated range — 19 against 5–30 days

PAIDLATE · terms vs the clockdays to pay · 0–40

avg 19d

0 days40 days

reported avg 19 days their filed terms 5–30 days UK median 31 days · n = 6,104 recent filers

Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices

within 30 days 85% 31–60 days 10% 61+ days 5%

Source: their statutory Payment Practices Report #110568, period 1 Oct 2025 – 31 Mar 2026, filed 19 Apr 2026 · gov.uk payment-practices service

Howden UK Group Limited pays within its stated range, 14 days past the shortest term. 14% of invoices still went outside agreed terms; 5% reached 61 days or more. Self-reported in their statutory H1 2026 filing.

The pattern · last 6 of 17 reports

46 → 19 days — getting faster

PAIDLATE · the patternavg days per report

Last 6 of 17 filed reports · linear day scale · every period is in the table below · Source: gov.uk payment-practices service

27 days faster across the window. From 46 days in H2 2023 to 19 in the H1 2026 filing; the dashed line marks the 5-day term they state.

The read · computed from their figures

Howden UK Group Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 19 days against stated terms of 5–30 days; 14% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 5% took 61 days or longer. Filed 19 Apr 2026.

The direction is faster: from 46 days in H2 2023 to 19 now — 27 days faster across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 64% of the 638 large companies reporting in financial services.

That is 17 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Payment terms agreed with suppliers as part of contract negotiations. The most used terms are 30 days.

Dispute resolution

Howden has a dedicated Finance Operations Team, reachable by phone and email. Suppliers with invoice disputes can contact this team. Anything unresolved will be escalated to the Finance Operations Manager. The Finance Operations Team work with the supplier to resolve promptly.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2026	19	14%	5%	19 Apr 2026
H2 2025	17	31%	4%	13 Oct 2025
H1 2025	19	27%	4%	7 Apr 2025
H2 2024	19	29%	5%	30 Oct 2024
H1 2024	22	26%	7%	22 Apr 2024
H2 2023	46	54%	27%	31 Oct 2023
H1 2023	30	52%	26%	27 Apr 2023
H2 2022	30	31%	24%	28 Oct 2022
H1 2022	35	29%	23%	3 May 2022
H2 2021	30	31%	24%	29 Oct 2021
H1 2021	30	31%	24%	26 Apr 2021
H2 2020	35	40%	29%	29 Oct 2020
H1 2020	44	45%	31%	4 May 2020
H2 2019	34	43%	10%	19 Nov 2019
H1 2019	19	33%	9%	30 Apr 2019
H2 2018	19	39%	42%	24 Oct 2018
H1 2018	40	57%	23%	26 Apr 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 1 Jun 1962
Registered office: ONE CREECHURCH PLACE, LONDON, EC3A 5AF

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

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 19-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 19-day vs a 5-day payment cycle.

≈ £7,500

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 19-day cycle — about £5,500 more than the same account would carry at 5-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 · Howden UK Group Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 27 days faster over the window (46 → 19 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest filed report puts the average at day 19; across their last 6 reports it ranged 17–46 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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