Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

How long does Senior UK Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 01928053 · Manufacturing · 17 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Jun 2026

49days

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: 3 Jul 1985
Registered office: 59/61 HIGH STREET, RICKMANSWORTH, WD3 1RH

0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 30 Sept 2026

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 46–76 days. Reported average: 49.

Stated terms46–76d

+3 days

Reported avg49d

At a glance

The key figures

46–76d

their stated terms

invoices paid outside terms

-7d

faster over the window

±3d

steady pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower

Slower than 57% of the 992 large companies reporting in manufacturing.

The pattern

Getting faster

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 46d

H2 2023H1 2024H2 2024H1 2025H2 2025H1 2026

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 33% 31–60 days 31% 61+ days 36%

The read · computed from their figures

Senior UK Limited has filed 17 statutory payment periods (earliest H1 2018). Their latest report puts the average at 49 days against stated terms of 46–76 days.

The direction is faster: from 56 to 49 days over the window — about 7 days faster.

In the latest period 7% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 36% landed 61+ days out.

What they tell their suppliers

Offers e-invoicing 1% of invoices in dispute

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

The Company has a variety of different standard payment periods including some invoices with "end of month" standard terms. The due date of the "end of month" invoices are estimated as the mid point of the month after. For example, 60 day "end of month" terms are estimated to have a standard payment period of 75 days. In order to determine the shortest and longest standard payment period, all of the invoices due in the period have been placed into the following standard payment period buckets: 0-15 days, 16-30 days, 31-60 days, 61-90 days, 91-120 days, 121-150 days and >151 days. The two buckets with the greatest number of invoices due in the period (reflecting the most commonly used terms) are 31-60 days and 61-90 days. Therefore the 31-60 day bucket is estimated as the shortest standar

Dispute resolution

Any queries on invoices are sent to the accounts payable team or the person responsible for raising the original purchase order, who will liaise with the supplier until the issue is resolved.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2026	49	7%	36%	28 Jul 2026
H2 2025	55	4%	46%	29 Jan 2026
H1 2025	54	3%	53%	23 Jul 2025
H2 2024	53	2%	53%	28 Jan 2025
H1 2024	56	5%	50%	17 Jul 2024
H2 2023	56	4%	49%	17 Jan 2024
H1 2023	55	4%	49%	25 Jul 2023
H2 2022	53	4%	44%	17 Jan 2023
H1 2022	53	6%	48%	27 Jul 2022
H2 2021	52	5%	46%	18 Jan 2022
H1 2021	55	5%	51%	27 Jul 2021
H2 2020	54	10%	40%	20 Jan 2021
H1 2020	60	8%	56%	20 Jul 2020
H2 2019	59	7%	56%	27 Jan 2020
H1 2019	58	13%	54%	25 Jul 2019
H2 2018	57	13%	51%	28 Jan 2019
H1 2018	61	33%	55%	26 Jul 2018

Working-capital effect

What a 49-day cycle ties up

Illustrative. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 49-day vs a 46-day payment cycle.

≈ £19,500

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 49-day cycle — about £1,200 more than the same account would carry at 46-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 7 days faster over the window (56 → 49 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest reports average around day 49, moving within about ±3 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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