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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Marlowe Fire & Security Limited pays suppliers in 72 days on average — within its stated 30–90 day terms

CRN 05239777 · Administrative & support services · 2 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Sept 2025

72daysavg time to pay · H2 2025

Their H2 2025 filing puts the average 42 days past the shortest term they state (30 days), still within their 90-day upper term.

Well behindvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
30–90 days
Paid outside agreed terms
37% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
37%
Reporting period
1 Apr 2025 – 30 Sept 2025
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 30 Oct 2025

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

Terms vs reality · their H2 2025 filing

Paid within their stated range — 72 against 30–90 days

The read · computed from their figures

Marlowe Fire & Security Limited's H2 2025 filing puts their average at 72 days against stated terms of 30–90 days; 37% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 37% took 61 days or longer. Filed 30 Oct 2025.

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 96% of the 593 large companies reporting in administrative & support services.

That is 2 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2025) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

30 to 90 days

Dispute resolution

Queries are initially raised with the purchase ledger team and then escalated to the relevant person where necessary

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H2 20257237%37%30 Oct 2025
H1 20258657%55%2 May 2025

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
23 Sept 2004
Registered office
LEVEL 12, THE SHARD, LONDON, SE1 9SG
0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 31 Dec 2026

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 72-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 72-day vs a 30-day payment cycle.

≈ £28,500
of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 72-day cycle — about £16,600 more than the same account would carry at 30-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 · Marlowe Fire & Security Limited

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Their latest reports average around day 72. 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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