Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

J D Wetherspoon PLC pays suppliers in 28 days on average — within its stated 7–90 day terms

CRN 01709784 · Accommodation & food · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 27 Jul 2025

28daysavg time to pay · H1 2025

Their H1 2025 filing puts the average 21 days past the shortest term they state (7 days), still within their 90-day upper term.

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

Their stated terms: 7–90 days
Paid outside agreed terms: 5% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days: 3%
Reporting period: 27 Jan 2025 – 27 Jul 2025
Source: their gov.uk filing, filed 28 Jan 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2025 filing

Paid within their stated range — 28 against 7–90 days

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

avg 28d

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reported avg 28 days their filed terms 7–90 days UK median 31 days · n = 6,104 recent filers

Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices

within 30 days 67% 31–60 days 30% 61+ days 3%

Source: their statutory Payment Practices Report #106970, period 27 Jan 2025 – 27 Jul 2025, filed 28 Jan 2026 · gov.uk payment-practices service

J D Wetherspoon PLC pays within its stated range, 21 days past the shortest term. 5% of invoices still went outside agreed terms; 3% reached 61 days or more. Self-reported in their statutory H1 2025 filing.

The pattern · last 6 of 16 reports

Holding steady around 28 days

PAIDLATE · the patternavg days per report

Last 6 of 16 filed reports · linear day scale · every period is in the table below · Source: gov.uk payment-practices service

Steady around 28 days. Their reported average has moved within about ±1 days period to period; the dashed line marks the 7-day term they state.

The read · computed from their figures

J D Wetherspoon PLC's H1 2025 filing puts their average at 28 days against stated terms of 7–90 days; 5% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 3% took 61 days or longer. Filed 28 Jan 2026.

The pattern is steady — their reported average moves within about ±1 days period to period.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 63% of the 145 large companies reporting in accommodation & food.

That is 16 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

What they tell their suppliers

Offers e-invoicing

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

JD Wetherspoon does not have standard payment terms. Payment terms are agreed on a supplier by supplier basis.

Dispute resolution

If there is a disagreement between JD Wetherspoon and one of its suppliers, resolution will be sought by the team responsible for the area where the dispute has arisen, dependent on the nature of the disagreement. Escalations would move back into the commercial team responsible for supplier contracts, or senior management.

Other information

No further comment provided

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2025	28	5%	3%	28 Jan 2026
H1 2025	27	10%	1%	5 Mar 2025
H1 2024	28	11%	1%	6 Dec 2024
H1 2024	28	12%	1%	15 May 2024
H1 2023	26	16%	1%	16 Nov 2023
H1 2023	28	19%	1%	16 Nov 2023
H1 2022	27	15%	1%	21 Sept 2022
H1 2022	32	13%	2%	21 Sept 2022
H1 2021	30	17%	2%	2 Nov 2021
H1 2021	45	41%	20%	29 Jan 2021
H1 2020	41	38%	16%	29 Jan 2021
H1 2020	38	12%	16%	29 Jan 2021
H1 2019	39	13%	17%	27 Nov 2019
H1 2019	38	12%	16%	10 Jul 2019
H1 2018	38	13%	16%	26 Sept 2018
H1 2018	37	16%	15%	1 Mar 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Public Limited Company
Incorporated: 25 Mar 1983
Registered office: WETHERSPOON HOUSE, WATFORD, WD24 4QL

4 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Jan 2027

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 28-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 28-day vs a 7-day payment cycle.

≈ £11,000

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 28-day cycle — about £8,300 more than the same account would carry at 7-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 · J D Wetherspoon PLC

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average is steady — within about ±1 days period to period, around 28 days.

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest reports average around day 28, moving within about ±1 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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