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How long does West Midlands Travel Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 02652253 · Transport & storage · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Dec 2025

35days
their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period
Around averagevs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

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

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On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
8 Oct 1991
Registered office
NATIONAL EXPRESS HOUSE, BIRMINGHAM, B5 6DD
1 outstanding charge — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 Dec 2026

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 45 days. Reported average: 35.

Stated terms45d
-10 days
Reported avg35d

At a glance

The key figures

45d
their stated terms
30%
invoices paid outside terms
+5d
slower over the window
±5d
steady pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower
Faster than 51% of the 248 large companies reporting in transport & storage.

The pattern

Getting slower

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 45d
30
32
27
26
36
35
H1 2023H2 2023H1 2024H2 2024H1 2025H2 2025

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 71% 31–60 days 29% 61+ days 0%

The read · computed from their figures

West Midlands Travel Limited has filed 16 statutory payment periods (earliest H1 2018). Their latest report puts the average at 35 days against stated terms of 45 days.

The direction is slower: from 30 to 35 days over the window — about 5 days slower.

In the latest period 30% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 0% landed 61+ days out.

What they tell their suppliers

3% of invoices in dispute

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

The standard payment terms are that the supplier will be paid within 45 days after the date in which West Midlands Travel Limited receives the invoices provided it has been supplied together with a valid purchase order number and full details of the services, including goods if relevant, delivered, including description, quantity, price and value added tax.

Dispute resolution

The Supplier invoice dispute process is administered by accounts payable within West Midlands Travel Limited Shared Services Centre. In the event a dispute cannot be resolved between the Supplier and Accounts Payable the dispute us escalated to the Head of Shared Services who will take ownership of the dispute and investigate the circumstances with all parties concerned to seek to achieve an agreed resolution. If the dispute still cannot be resolved, it may be escalated to relevant individuals within the relevant business unit and, if such escalation does not resolve the dispute, the relevant resolution mechanism in the relevant supply contract will be relied on to resolve the dispute.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H2 20253530%0%26 Jan 2026
H1 20253626%0%5 Aug 2025
H2 2024260%0%30 Jan 2025
H1 2024271%1%19 Jul 2024
H2 2023321%1%31 Jan 2024
H1 2023301%1%14 Jul 2023
H2 2022241%1%30 Jan 2023
H1 2022252%2%26 Jul 2022
H2 2021283%3%27 Jan 2022
H1 2021295%5%5 Aug 2021
H2 20205623%23%28 Jan 2021
H1 20203826%11%31 Jul 2020
H2 20193214%3%30 Jan 2020
H1 20193415%5%30 Jul 2019
H2 20183018%4%30 Jul 2019
H1 20183123%4%30 Jul 2018

Quick answers

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 5 days slower over the window (30 → 35 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest reports average around day 35, moving within about ±5 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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