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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Arriva UK Bus Limited pays suppliers in 56 days on average — inside its 60-day stated terms

CRN 02756876 · Professional & technical services · 5 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Jun 2026

56daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 4 days inside their stated 60-day term.

Slower than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
60 days
Paid outside agreed terms
31% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
18%
Reporting period
1 Jan 2026 – 30 Jun 2026
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 31 Jul 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid 4 days inside the 60-day term they state

The pattern · last 5 of 5 reports

98 → 56 days — getting faster

The read · computed from their figures

Arriva UK Bus Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 56 days against stated terms of 60 days; 31% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 18% took 61 days or longer. Filed 31 Jul 2026.

The direction is faster: from 98 days in H1 2024 to 56 now — 42 days faster across their last 5 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 87% of the 510 large companies reporting in professional & technical services.

That is 5 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2024) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

It is the company’s policy to agree appropriate terms of payment with suppliers for each transaction or series of transactions, and to abide by those terms based on the timely submission of valid invoices. The company’s standard payment terms is 60 days from date of invoice, however, on some occasions variations to these standard payment terms may be agreed.

Dispute resolution

The company (as with the wider Arriva group of companies) seeks to deal with suppliers of all sizes in a fair and reasonable manner. The operating company seeks to respond and address supplier queries as quickly as possible. In the event that a dispute cannot be resolved by the central Arriva Accounts Payable team, it would be escalated in the first instance to the senior management of the operating company or procurement relationship manager for resolution.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 20265631%18%31 Jul 2026
H2 20255124%12%29 Jan 2026
H1 20255233%19%30 Jul 2025
H2 20245127%16%29 Jan 2025
H1 20249844%29%6 Aug 2024

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
19 Oct 1992
Registered office
1 ADMIRAL WAY, PARK, SUNDERLAND, SR3 3XP
1 outstanding charge — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

Open the full record at Companies House.

Quick answers · Arriva UK Bus Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 42 days faster over the window (98 → 56 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report puts the average at day 56; across their last 5 reports it ranged 51–98 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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