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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

South Staffordshire Water PLC paid suppliers in 28 days on average — inside its 60-day stated terms

CRN 02662742 · Water & waste · 7 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Sept 2021

Dated record. The latest report covers a period ending 30 Sept 2021 and the company hasn’t filed since (it may have dropped below the reporting threshold). Treat the figures as historical.
28daysavg time to pay · H2 2021

Their H2 2021 filing put the average 32 days inside their stated 60-day term.

Their stated terms
60 days
Paid outside agreed terms
27% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
7%
Reporting period
1 Apr 2021 – 30 Sept 2021
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 1 Nov 2021

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

Terms vs reality · their H2 2021 filing

Paid 32 days inside the 60-day term they state

The pattern · last 6 of 7 reports

52 → 28 days — faster across the window

The read · computed from their figures

South Staffordshire Water PLC's H2 2021 filing put their average at 28 days against stated terms of 60 days; 27% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 7% took 61 days or longer. Filed 1 Nov 2021.

The direction is faster: from 52 days in H1 2019 to 28 now — 24 days faster across their last 6 reports.

That is 7 statutory periods on record (earliest H2 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

"Standard payment terms are usually within the range set out above, and are agreed prior to the commencement of trading and form part of our trading terms and conditions."

Dispute resolution

The business currently completes weekly BACs payment runs and is working towards achieving the requirements of the Prompt Payment Code as part of our commitments made for PR19, recognising the importance of cash-flow to our supply chain and the need to positively support SMEs.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H2 20212827%7%1 Nov 2021
H1 20213031%9%30 Apr 2021
H2 20203028%9%13 Nov 2020
H1 20203132%10%13 May 2020
H2 20194932%18%30 Oct 2019
H1 20195235%20%29 Apr 2019
H2 20185336%21%30 Oct 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Public Limited Company
Incorporated
25 Nov 1991
Registered office
GREEN LANE, WEST MIDLANDS, WS2 7PD
0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

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Quick answers · South Staffordshire Water PLC

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 24 days faster over the window (52 → 28 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report put the average at day 28; across their last 6 reports it ranged 28–52 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.
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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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