PAIDLATE by YORXEN
← New check

Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

How long does Stephenson Harwood Services Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 02900722 · Professional & technical services · 18 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Apr 2026

70days
their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period
Well behindvs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

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

Share

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
21 Feb 1994
Registered office
1 FINSBURY CIRCUS, LONDON, EC2M 7SH
0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 31 Jan 2027

Open the full record at Companies House.

Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 37 days. Reported average: 70.

Stated terms37d
+33 days
Reported avg70d

At a glance

The key figures

37d
their stated terms
63%
invoices paid outside terms
+11d
slower over the window
±9d
variable pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower
Slower than 94% of the 530 large companies reporting in professional & technical services.

The pattern

Getting slower

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 37d
59
67
59
53
70
70
H2 2023H1 2024H2 2024H1 2025H2 2025H1 2026

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 12% 31–60 days 38% 61+ days 50%

The read · computed from their figures

Stephenson Harwood Services Limited has filed 18 statutory payment periods (earliest H2 2017). Their latest report puts the average at 70 days against stated terms of 37 days.

The direction is slower: from 59 to 70 days over the window — about 11 days slower.

In the latest period 63% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 50% landed 61+ days out.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

The principal activity of the company is to provide employment services of professional and support staff to Stephenson Harwood LLP, an international law firm that provides legal services in the United Kingdom and internationally. Our standard policy is to pay all invoices within 37 days.

Dispute resolution

All invoices in dispute are passed to the appropriate team that requested the goods or services in order for them to resolve the dispute. It may then be referred onto the senior management of the firm if necessary.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 20267063%50%28 May 2026
H2 20257048%42%27 Nov 2025
H1 20255347%25%23 May 2025
H2 20245951%31%25 Nov 2024
H1 20246756%33%30 May 2024
H2 20235960%35%27 Nov 2023
H1 20235959%39%26 May 2023
H2 20225242%28%30 Nov 2022
H1 20223826%14%30 Nov 2022
H2 20212917%10%30 Nov 2021
H1 2021229%4%27 May 2021
H2 2020257%6%27 May 2021
H1 2020237%5%29 May 2020
H2 2019172%1%30 Nov 2019
H1 20191812%8%30 May 2019
H2 20181910%7%30 Nov 2018
H1 2018177%4%30 May 2018
H2 2017143%9%30 Nov 2017

Working-capital effect

What a 70-day cycle ties up

Illustrative. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 70-day vs a 37-day payment cycle.

≈ £27,500
of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 70-day cycle — about £13,000 more than the same account would carry at 37-day terms.

Late Payment Act. The Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act 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

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 11 days slower over the window (59 → 70 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest reports average around day 70, moving within about ±9 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.
Can I see what this means for my invoices?
Run the live check — it re-reads their record and their live Companies House file, on the amount you invoice.

Stay ahead

Watch Stephenson Harwood Services Limited (free)

Their next payment report is due ≈ 26 Nov 2026. We watch their public record and email you when something changes — a new payment report, late filings, insolvency markers, new charges.

You’ll get a confirmation email first. Unsubscribe any time. How we handle your address.

More large companies in professional & technical services

Steer Davies & Gleave Limited · Stewardship Services (Uket) Limited · Starlight Camping Limited · Sthree Management Services Limited · St. James's Place PLC · Sthree PLC

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).

Report PL-02900722 · latest period to 30 Apr 2026

Verify the original Companies House file

Built by YORXEN LTD · registered in England & Wales · CRN 17303256 · privacy · terms.