Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

The Bath Priory Limited pays suppliers in 34 days on average — within its stated 7–60 day terms

CRN 02965452 · Accommodation & food · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 28 Dec 2025

34daysavg time to pay · H2 2025

Their H2 2025 filing puts the average 27 days past the shortest term they state (7 days), still within their 60-day upper term.

Around averagevs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers

Their stated terms: 7–60 days
Paid outside agreed terms: 24% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days: 5%
Reporting period: 30 Jun 2025 – 28 Dec 2025
Source: their gov.uk filing, filed 30 Jan 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H2 2025 filing

Paid within their stated range — 34 against 7–60 days

PAIDLATE · terms vs the clockdays to pay · 0–65

avg 34d

0 days65 days

reported avg 34 days their filed terms 7–60 days UK median 31 days · n = 6,104 recent filers

Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices

within 30 days 48% 31–60 days 47% 61+ days 5%

Source: their statutory Payment Practices Report #108110, period 30 Jun 2025 – 28 Dec 2025, filed 30 Jan 2026 · gov.uk payment-practices service

The Bath Priory Limited pays within its stated range, 27 days past the shortest term. 24% of invoices still went outside agreed terms; 5% reached 61 days or more. Self-reported in their statutory H2 2025 filing.

The pattern · last 6 of 16 reports

23 → 34 days — slowing down

PAIDLATE · the patternavg days per report

Last 6 of 16 filed reports · linear day scale · every period is in the table below · Source: gov.uk payment-practices service

11 days slower across the window. From 23 days in H1 2023 to 34 in the H2 2025 filing; the dashed line marks the 7-day term they state.

The read · computed from their figures

The Bath Priory Limited's H2 2025 filing puts their average at 34 days against stated terms of 7–60 days; 24% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 5% took 61 days or longer. Filed 30 Jan 2026.

The direction is slower: from 23 days in H1 2023 to 34 now — 11 days slower across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 52% of the 145 large companies reporting in accommodation & food.

That is 16 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

What they tell their suppliers

Offers e-invoicing

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Terms typically agreed with high volume suppliers are 28-31 days following the end of the month of invoicing or 30 Days from invoice date. However the business also has some suppliers requiring payment within 7 or 14 days.

Dispute resolution

Queries regarding supplier payments are generally resolved through discussion (by phone or email) between a member of the finance team and the supplier.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H2 2025	34	24%	5%	30 Jan 2026
H1 2025	36	28%	4%	22 Jul 2025
H2 2024	32	24%	5%	4 Feb 2025
H1 2024	31	24%	4%	26 Jul 2024
H2 2023	23	5%	3%	26 Jan 2024
H1 2023	23	26%	3%	18 Jul 2023
H2 2022	25	30%	3%	13 Jan 2023
H1 2022	26	30%	4%	19 Jul 2022
H2 2021	25	25%	3%	17 Jan 2022
H1 2021	33	37%	5%	14 Jul 2021
H2 2020	34	61%	4%	29 Jan 2021
H1 2020	33	41%	8%	21 Jul 2020
H2 2019	36	47%	9%	16 Jan 2020
H1 2019	37	61%	6%	23 Sept 2019
H2 2018	38	60%	9%	29 Jan 2019
H1 2018	37	41%	5%	26 Jul 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 6 Sept 1994
Registered office: 4 QUEEN SQUARE, BATH, BA1 2HA

0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 34-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 34-day vs a 7-day payment cycle.

≈ £13,500

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 34-day cycle — about £10,600 more than the same account would carry at 7-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 · The Bath Priory Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 11 days slower over the window (23 → 34 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest filed report puts the average at day 34; across their last 6 reports it ranged 23–36 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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