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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Pearson Education Limited pays suppliers in 32 days on average — 2 days past its stated terms

CRN 00872828 · Information & communication · 17 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Jun 2026

32daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 2 days past the 30-day term they state.

Around averagevs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
30 days
Paid outside agreed terms
6% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
2%
Reporting period
1 Jan 2026 – 30 Jun 2026
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 27 Jul 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid 2 days past their stated terms

The pattern · last 6 of 17 reports

23 → 32 days — slowing down

The read · computed from their figures

Pearson Education Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 32 days against stated terms of 30 days; 6% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 2% took 61 days or longer. Filed 27 Jul 2026.

The direction is slower: from 23 days in H2 2023 to 32 now — 9 days slower across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 62% of the 476 large companies reporting in information & communication.

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

What they tell their suppliers

Payment code: Prompt Payment Code Offers e-invoicing

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

30 days from receipt of invoice

Dispute resolution

If the supplier wishes to raise a dispute they should use the below process: Contact the Source to Pay helpdesk by email at [email protected]. Suppliers will receive a ticket number by return email. This team is the first point of contact for supplier queries. Suppliers may contact the Helpdesk with all queries, including disputes. The Helpdesk have full visibility of the invoice status at all times and are well placed to support the supplier in answering their query. This includes escalating the matter to the relevant person in the business as and when required in order for the dispute to be resolved. Should queries not be resolved within an agreed time frame by the Helpdesk, suppliers can escalate their query by emailing [email protected] and quoting the original ticket n

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 2026326%2%27 Jul 2026
H2 2025295%2%26 Jan 2026
H1 2025268%2%29 Jul 2025
H2 2024277%2%28 Jan 2025
H1 20242715%2%22 Jul 2024
H2 20232329%2%25 Jan 2024
H1 20232611%1%20 Jul 2023
H2 2022267%1%18 Jan 2023
H1 2022268%1%28 Jul 2022
H2 20212711%2%28 Jan 2022
H1 20213022%4%27 Jul 2021
H2 20202148%2%27 Jan 2021
H1 20202147%4%30 Jul 2020
H2 20192148%3%31 Jan 2020
H1 20192544%6%30 Jul 2019
H2 20182933%22%30 Jan 2019
H1 20183043%7%26 Jul 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
3 Mar 1966
Registered office
80 STRAND, LONDON, WC2R 0RL
0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

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Quick answers · Pearson Education Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 9 days slower over the window (23 → 32 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report puts the average at day 32; across their last 6 reports it ranged 23–32 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.
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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.
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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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