Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Freshfields Service Company pays suppliers in 30 days on average — inside its 90-day stated terms

CRN 01292956 · Administrative & support services · 18 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Apr 2026

30daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 60 days inside their stated 90-day term.

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

Their stated terms: 90 days
Paid outside agreed terms: 31% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days: 5%
Reporting period: 1 Nov 2025 – 30 Apr 2026
Source: their gov.uk filing, filed 29 May 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid 60 days inside the 90-day term they state

PAIDLATE · terms vs the clockdays to pay · 0–100

avg 30d

0 days100 days

reported avg 30 days their filed terms 0–90 days UK median 31 days · n = 6,104 recent filers

Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices

within 30 days 76% 31–60 days 19% 61+ days 5%

Source: their statutory Payment Practices Report #112071, period 1 Nov 2025 – 30 Apr 2026, filed 29 May 2026 · gov.uk payment-practices service

Freshfields Service Company pays 60 days inside its stated 90-day term. 31% 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 18 reports

48 → 30 days — getting faster

PAIDLATE · the patternavg days per report

Last 6 of 18 filed reports · linear day scale · every period is in the table below · Source: gov.uk payment-practices service

18 days faster across the window. From 48 days in H2 2023 to 30 in the H1 2026 filing; the dashed line marks the 90-day term they state.

The read · computed from their figures

Freshfields Service Company's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 30 days against stated terms of 90 days; 31% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 5% took 61 days or longer. Filed 29 May 2026.

The direction is faster: from 48 days in H2 2023 to 30 now — 18 days faster across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 56% of the 593 large companies reporting in administrative & support services.

That is 18 statutory periods on record (earliest H2 2017) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Standard supplier payment period is 45 days

Dispute resolution

Payment processing is dealt with by the Accounts Payable function and any supplier payment queries that may arise are actioned by that team. In the event they are unable to resolve the matter, the query will be discussed between the supplier and/or procurement and/or relevant functional manager to ensure satisfactory resolution for both the supplier and the firm.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2026	30	31%	5%	29 May 2026
H2 2025	34	37%	5%	28 Nov 2025
H1 2025	42	42%	13%	2 Jun 2025
H2 2024	44	43%	12%	29 Nov 2024
H1 2024	53	42%	16%	5 Jun 2024
H2 2023	48	59%	16%	27 Nov 2023
H1 2023	49	54%	16%	26 May 2023
H2 2022	47	52%	15%	30 Nov 2022
H1 2022	51	44%	20%	27 May 2022
H2 2021	45	49%	17%	30 Nov 2021
H1 2021	42	42%	14%	2 Aug 2021
H2 2020	45	47%	15%	30 Nov 2020
H1 2020	44	56%	14%	29 May 2020
H2 2019	39	54%	10%	27 Nov 2019
H1 2019	37	2%	13%	31 May 2019
H2 2018	38	1%	14%	30 Nov 2018
H1 2018	43	5%	17%	29 May 2018
H2 2017	37	7%	13%	30 Nov 2017

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Unlimited Company
Incorporated: 30 Dec 1976
Registered office: 100 BISHOPSGATE, LONDON, EC2P 2SR

0 outstanding charges on the register

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Quick answers · Freshfields Service Company

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 18 days faster over the window (48 → 30 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest filed report puts the average at day 30; across their last 6 reports it ranged 30–53 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.

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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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