Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

How long does Sparrows Offshore Services Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 00845839 · Administrative & support services · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Dec 2025

54days

their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period

Slower than mostvs 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: 14 Apr 1965
Registered office: 30 CROWN PLACE, LONDON, EC2A 4ES

0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 31 May 2027

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 30–90 days. Reported average: 54.

Stated terms30–90d

+24 days

Reported avg54d

At a glance

The key figures

30–90d

their stated terms

invoices paid outside terms

+10d

slower over the window

±4d

steady pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower

Slower than 91% of the 608 large companies reporting in administrative & support services.

The pattern

Getting slower

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 30d

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

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 30% 31–60 days 21% 61+ days 49%

The read · computed from their figures

Sparrows Offshore Services Limited has filed 16 statutory payment periods (earliest H1 2018). Their latest report puts the average at 54 days against stated terms of 30–90 days.

The direction is slower: from 44 to 54 days over the window — about 10 days slower.

In the latest period 0% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 49% landed 61+ days out.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Sparrows standard payment terms are 75 days after receipt by Sparrows of a correctly prepared & adequately supported invoice to the address stated in the contract

Dispute resolution

Sparrows seeks to advise suppliers promptly of any disputes or reasons why an invoice will not be paid in accordance with the agreed terms. Invoices that are subject to dispute will not be paid until resolution of the dispute. Depending on the issue, Procurement or the Requisitioner may be involved to resolve any disputes. Once resolved, payment will be made in accordance with the terms of the contract.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H2 2025	54	0%	49%	3 Feb 2026
H1 2025	46	28%	37%	4 Aug 2025
H2 2024	54	39%	46%	21 Jan 2025
H1 2024	47	26%	38%	6 Aug 2024
H2 2023	50	27%	41%	17 Jan 2024
H1 2023	44	26%	37%	21 Sept 2023
H2 2022	43	21%	35%	24 Feb 2023
H1 2022	39	19%	28%	22 Aug 2022
H2 2021	44	13%	33%	2 Mar 2022
H1 2021	44	17%	31%	2 Sept 2021
H2 2020	45	18%	35%	26 Mar 2021
H1 2020	47	32%	37%	12 Oct 2020
H2 2019	47	35%	34%	25 Mar 2020
H1 2019	43	31%	31%	1 Oct 2019
H2 2018	43	30%	32%	18 Feb 2019
H1 2018	44	31%	30%	29 Oct 2018

Working-capital effect

What a 54-day cycle ties up

Illustrative. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 54-day vs a 30-day payment cycle.

≈ £21,500

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 54-day cycle — about £9,500 more than the same account would carry at 30-day terms.

Late Payment Act. The Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act 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

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 10 days slower over the window (44 → 54 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest reports average around day 54, moving within about ±4 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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