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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Npower Northern Limited paid suppliers in 21 days on average — inside its 90-day stated terms

CRN 03432100 · Professional & technical services · 8 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Dec 2021

Dated record. The latest report covers a period ending 31 Dec 2021 and the company hasn’t filed since (it may have dropped below the reporting threshold). Treat the figures as historical.
21daysavg time to pay · H2 2021

Their H2 2021 filing put the average 69 days inside their stated 90-day term.

Their stated terms
90 days
Paid outside agreed terms
12% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
1%
Reporting period
1 Jul 2021 – 31 Dec 2021
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 27 Jan 2022

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

Terms vs reality · their H2 2021 filing

Paid 69 days inside the 90-day term they state

The pattern · last 6 of 8 reports

7 → 21 days — slower across the window

The read · computed from their figures

Npower Northern Limited's H2 2021 filing put their average at 21 days against stated terms of 90 days; 12% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 1% took 61 days or longer. Filed 27 Jan 2022.

The direction is slower: from 7 days in H1 2019 to 21 now — 14 days slower across their last 6 reports.

That is 8 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

Standard payment terms are between 0 and 90 days from invoice date. Variations can be agreed for individual circumstances.

Dispute resolution

Queries relating to invoices and payments are resolved using an integrated workflow solution involving the payments team and related parts of the business.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H2 20212112%1%27 Jan 2022
H1 202191%0%29 Jul 2021
H2 202081%0%27 Jan 2021
H1 202071%0%29 Jul 2020
H2 201962%0%29 Jan 2020
H1 201972%0%30 Jul 2019
H2 201883%0%25 Jan 2019
H1 201873%1%25 Jul 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
10 Sept 1997
Registered office
TRINITY HOUSE, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 4BX
0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

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Quick answers · Npower Northern Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 14 days slower over the window (7 → 21 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report put the average at day 21; across their last 6 reports it ranged 6–21 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?
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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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