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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Virgin Media Wholesale Limited pays suppliers in 75 days on average — 45 days past its stated terms

CRN 02514287 · Administrative & support services · 9 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Dec 2025

75daysavg time to pay · H2 2025

Their H2 2025 filing puts the average 45 days past the 30-day term they state.

Well behindvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
30 days
Paid outside agreed terms
25% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
67%
Reporting period
1 Jul 2025 – 31 Dec 2025
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 29 Jan 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H2 2025 filing

Paid 45 days past their stated terms

The pattern · last 6 of 9 reports

60 → 75 days — slowing down

The read · computed from their figures

Virgin Media Wholesale Limited's H2 2025 filing puts their average at 75 days against stated terms of 30 days; 25% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 67% took 61 days or longer. Filed 29 Jan 2026.

The direction is slower: from 60 days in H1 2023 to 75 now — 15 days slower across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 97% of the 593 large companies reporting in administrative & support services.

That is 9 statutory periods on record (earliest H2 2021) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Payment terms are agreed with suppliers as part of contract negotiations. Our standard terms are between 30 and 90 days from the receipt of a valid invoice or the receipt of a valid application for payment. On receipt of a valid invoice these invoices are included in a weekly payment run as they fall due.

Dispute resolution

At Virgin Media Wholesale Limited our aim is to resolve invoice queries or disputes in a timely manner and ensure payments are made at the earliest opportunity. If you have a query regarding the payment date or an invoice dispute then the best way to contact us is to raise a query on our Purchase to Pay (P2P) Query Tool https://vm-supplier.custhelp.com. The P2P Team will be able to resolve most queries and can liaise with our internal business contacts on your behalf. More complex disputes may need the business contacts to provide feedback directly. Upon resolution of any disputes or queries if the invoice has become due it will be settled on the next payment run.

Other information

Our suppliers are paid via a weekly payment run which is pulled to cover the week in advance, thus ensuring suppliers should not be paid late.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H2 20257525%67%29 Jan 2026
H1 20257636%73%29 Jul 2025
H2 20243833%17%29 Jan 2025
H1 2024450%0%25 Jul 2024
H2 20231048%0%30 Jan 2024
H1 20236012%42%28 Jul 2023
H2 20225724%6%27 Jan 2023
H1 20227452%71%29 Jul 2022
H2 2021134%2%28 Jan 2022

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
21 Jun 1990
Registered office
500 BROOK DRIVE, READING, RG2 6UU
27 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

Open the full record at Companies House.

Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 75-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 75-day vs a 30-day payment cycle.

≈ £29,500
of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 75-day cycle — about £17,700 more than the same account would carry at 30-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 · Virgin Media Wholesale Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 15 days slower over the window (60 → 75 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report puts the average at day 75; across their last 6 reports it ranged 4–76 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.
Can I see what this means for my invoices?
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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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