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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Rational UK Limited pays suppliers in 11 days on average — within its stated 1–164 day terms

CRN 02576032 · Manufacturing · 15 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Jun 2026

11daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 10 days past the shortest term they state (1 days), still within their 164-day upper term.

Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
1–164 days
Paid outside agreed terms
4% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
0%
Reporting period
1 Jan 2026 – 30 Jun 2026
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 8 Jul 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid within their stated range — 11 against 1–164 days

The pattern · last 6 of 15 reports

17 → 11 days — getting faster

The read · computed from their figures

Rational UK Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 11 days against stated terms of 1–164 days; 4% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 0% took 61 days or longer. Filed 8 Jul 2026.

The direction is faster: from 17 days in H2 2023 to 11 now — 6 days faster across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 99% of the 977 large companies reporting in manufacturing.

That is 15 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2019) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

86% of invoices have a 14 day payment term

Dispute resolution

Any dispute is resolved locally between the company and the supplier on an individual basis, with the primary aim that disputes are settle quickly, and contractual obligations are met. The company has a strong discipline of reconciling supplier statements where available to the weekly payment run.

Other information

230 invoices were technically not paid to terms. 75 had no payment. The average time to pay on these "not paid to terms" invoices was 12 days

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 2026114%0%8 Jul 2026
H2 2025114%0%19 Jan 2026
H1 2025114%1%9 Jul 2025
H2 2024123%1%15 Jan 2025
H1 2024126%1%10 Jul 2024
H2 20231712%5%11 Jan 2024
H1 2023135%2%10 Jul 2023
H2 2022124%1%17 Jan 2023
H1 2022113%0%6 Jul 2022
H2 2021124%3%13 Jan 2022
H1 2021106%0%8 Jul 2021
H2 20201221%1%14 Jan 2021
H1 20201568%2%21 Jul 2020
H2 20191370%2%21 Jul 2020
H1 20191276%1%21 Jul 2020

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
23 Jan 1991
Registered office
TITAN COURT, LUTON, LU4 8EF
0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 11-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 11-day vs a 1-day payment cycle.

≈ £4,500
of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 11-day cycle — about £3,900 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 · Rational UK Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 6 days faster over the window (17 → 11 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report puts the average at day 11; across their last 6 reports it ranged 11–17 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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