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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Barnett Waddingham Actuaries and Consultants Limited pays suppliers in 20 days on average — within its stated 7–30 day terms

CRN 06498431 · Financial services · 17 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Nov 2025

20daysavg time to pay · H2 2025

Their H2 2025 filing puts the average 13 days past the shortest term they state (7 days), still within their 30-day upper term.

Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
7–30 days
Paid outside agreed terms
13% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
2%
Reporting period
1 Jun 2025 – 30 Nov 2025
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 24 Jun 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H2 2025 filing

Paid within their stated range — 20 against 7–30 days

The pattern · last 6 of 17 reports

Holding steady around 20 days

The read · computed from their figures

Barnett Waddingham Actuaries and Consultants Limited's H2 2025 filing puts their average at 20 days against stated terms of 7–30 days; 13% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 2% took 61 days or longer. Filed 24 Jun 2026.

The pattern is steady — their reported average moves within about ±6 days period to period.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 59% of the 638 large companies reporting in financial services.

That is 17 statutory periods on record (earliest H2 2017) — 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

30 Days from date of Invoice Receipt are our standard terms

Dispute resolution

The Supplier contacts Barnett Waddingham in writing by either email or a letter explaining their query or complaint. The Barnett Waddingham Accounts Payable Team will investigate the situation with internal business colleagues and ensure payments are made promptly or reasons for late payment are fully investigated. Most dispute queries are settled in a timely manner before escalation and late penalty fees are rarely levied by suppliers.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H2 20252013%2%24 Jun 2026
H1 2025189%2%2 Oct 2025
H2 20241912%3%2 Oct 2025
H1 20243031%11%24 Sept 2024
H2 2023300%10%1 Mar 2024
H1 20231811%1%1 Mar 2024
H2 2022192%0%23 Mar 2023
H1 2022183%0%23 Mar 2023
H2 2021203%0%23 Mar 2023
H1 2021215%0%23 Mar 2023
H2 20202115%1%17 Dec 2020
H1 20202018%1%3 Jul 2020
H2 20191910%1%15 Jan 2020
H1 20192116%3%27 Jun 2019
H2 20182014%1%8 Jan 2019
H1 20182123%2%8 Jan 2019
H2 20172114%1%4 May 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
8 Feb 2008
Registered office
ONE, LONDON, EC3A 5AF
1 outstanding charge — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

Open the full record at Companies House.

Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 20-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 20-day vs a 7-day payment cycle.

≈ £8,000
of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 20-day cycle — about £5,100 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 · Barnett Waddingham Actuaries and Consultants Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average is steady — within about ±6 days period to period, around 20 days.
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest reports average around day 20, moving within about ±6 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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