Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Solway Foods Limited pays suppliers in 57 days on average — within its stated 1–120 day terms

CRN 02189139 · Manufacturing · 18 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Jul 2026

57daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 56 days past the shortest term they state (1 days), still within their 120-day upper term.

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

Their stated terms: 1–120 days
Paid outside agreed terms: 30% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days: 48%
Reporting period: 1 Feb 2026 – 31 Jul 2026
Source: their gov.uk filing, filed 1 Sept 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid within their stated range — 57 against 1–120 days

PAIDLATE · terms vs the clockdays to pay · 0–130

avg 57d

0 days130 days

reported avg 57 days their filed terms 1–120 days UK median 31 days · n = 6,104 recent filers

Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices

within 30 days 33% 31–60 days 19% 61+ days 48%

Source: their statutory Payment Practices Report #116713, period 1 Feb 2026 – 31 Jul 2026, filed 1 Sept 2026 · gov.uk payment-practices service

Solway Foods Limited pays within its stated range, 56 days past the shortest term. 30% of invoices still went outside agreed terms; 48% reached 61 days or more. Self-reported in their statutory H1 2026 filing.

The pattern · last 6 of 18 reports

47 → 57 days — slowing down

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

10 days slower across the window. From 47 days in H1 2024 to 57 in the H1 2026 filing; the dashed line marks the 1-day term they state.

The read · computed from their figures

Solway Foods Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 57 days against stated terms of 1–120 days; 30% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 48% took 61 days or longer. Filed 1 Sept 2026.

The direction is slower: from 47 days in H1 2024 to 57 now — 10 days slower across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 74% of the 977 large companies reporting in manufacturing.

That is 18 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

What they tell their suppliers

10% of invoices in dispute

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

We shall pay the price of the goods and the services on our first working day following the end of the third month following receipt of a correctly constituted VAT invoice or, if later, upon our acceptance of the goods or services in question.

Dispute resolution

Invoices are matched on receipt and disputed invoices notified to the supplier. Disputes are managed directly between the supplier and site and resolved items are then reprocessed.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2026	57	30%	48%	1 Sept 2026
H1 2026	57	32%	51%	9 Mar 2026
H1 2025	50	66%	38%	5 Sept 2025
H1 2025	50	67%	37%	21 Feb 2025
H1 2024	49	66%	33%	2 Sept 2024
H1 2024	47	64%	32%	27 Feb 2024
H1 2023	45	70%	31%	8 Sept 2023
H1 2023	46	70%	32%	8 Sept 2023
H1 2022	39	64%	29%	16 Sept 2022
H1 2022	47	65%	38%	3 Mar 2022
H1 2021	46	67%	39%	31 Aug 2021
H1 2021	45	69%	37%	1 Mar 2021
H1 2020	49	71%	40%	24 Sept 2020
H1 2020	50	67%	41%	27 Feb 2020
H1 2019	48	69%	42%	22 Aug 2019
H1 2019	57	74%	46%	25 Feb 2019
H1 2018	65	78%	57%	29 Aug 2018
H1 2018	64	73%	57%	27 Feb 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 5 Nov 1987
Registered office: TRINITY PARK HOUSE, WAKEFIELD, WF2 8EE

2 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Apr 2027

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 57-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 57-day vs a 1-day payment cycle.

≈ £22,500

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 57-day cycle — about £22,100 more than the same account would carry at 1-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 · Solway Foods Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 10 days slower over the window (47 → 57 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest filed report puts the average at day 57; across their last 6 reports it ranged 47–57 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 6,104 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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