Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

London Southend Airport Company Limited paid suppliers in 52 days on average — 7 days past its stated terms

CRN 02881745 · Transport & storage · 4 statutory reports on record · period to 29 Feb 2020

Dated record. The latest report covers a period ending 29 Feb 2020 and the company hasn’t filed since (it may have dropped below the reporting threshold). Treat the figures as historical.

52daysavg time to pay · H1 2020

Their H1 2020 filing put the average 7 days past the 45-day term they state.

Their stated terms: 45 days
Paid outside agreed terms: 83% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days: 10%
Reporting period: 1 Sept 2019 – 29 Feb 2020
Source: their gov.uk filing, filed 1 Apr 2020

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2020 filing

Paid 7 days past their stated terms

PAIDLATE · terms vs the clockdays to pay · 0–60

avg 52d

0 days60 days

reported avg 52 days their filed terms 45 days UK median 31 days · n = 6,104 recent filers

Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices

within 30 days 12% 31–60 days 78% 61+ days 10%

Source: their statutory Payment Practices Report #29821, period 1 Sept 2019 – 29 Feb 2020, filed 1 Apr 2020 · gov.uk payment-practices service

London Southend Airport Company Limited paid 7 days past its own stated terms. 83% of invoices still went outside agreed terms; 10% reached 61 days or more. Self-reported in their statutory H1 2020 filing.

The pattern · last 4 of 4 reports

64 → 52 days — faster across the window

PAIDLATE · the patternavg days per report

Last 4 of 4 filed reports · linear day scale · every period is in the table below · Source: gov.uk payment-practices service

12 days faster across the window. From 64 days in H1 2018 to 52 in the H1 2020 filing; the dashed line marks the 45-day term they state.

The read · computed from their figures

London Southend Airport Company Limited's H1 2020 filing put their average at 52 days against stated terms of 45 days; 83% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 10% took 61 days or longer. Filed 1 Apr 2020.

The direction is faster: from 64 days in H1 2018 to 52 now — 12 days faster across their last 4 reports.

That is 4 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 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 45 days in the absence of agreed terms with a supplier.

Dispute resolution

Queries should initially be sent either to the department managing the contract or to the London Southend Airport accounts department ([email protected]). Queries will be reviewed with the aim of providing a prompt resolution. Any further disputes would be escalated to senior management and/or the Legal team with a view to resolving the situation.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2020	52	83%	10%	1 Apr 2020
H1 2019	55	75%	12%	30 Sept 2019
H1 2019	56	85%	22%	29 Mar 2019
H1 2018	64	67%	26%	28 Sept 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 17 Dec 1993
Registered office: LONDON SOUTHEND AIRPORT, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, SS2 6YF

3 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 52-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 52-day vs a 45-day payment cycle.

≈ £20,500

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 52-day cycle — about £2,800 more than the same account would carry at 45-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 · London Southend Airport Company Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 12 days faster over the window (64 → 52 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest filed report put the average at day 52; across their last 4 reports it ranged 52–64 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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