Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

How long does The Francis Crick Institute Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 06885462 · Other services · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Mar 2026

25days

their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period

Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

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

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 23 Apr 2009
Registered office: 1 MIDLAND ROAD, LONDON, NW1 1AT

0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 31 Dec 2026

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 14–30 days. Reported average: 25.

Stated terms14–30d

+11 days

Reported avg25d

At a glance

The key figures

14–30d

their stated terms

invoices paid outside terms

-5d

faster over the window

±1d

steady pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower

Faster than 69% of the 118 large companies reporting in other services.

The pattern

Getting faster

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 14d

H2 2023H1 2024H2 2024H1 2025H2 2025H1 2026

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 97% 31–60 days 2% 61+ days 1%

The read · computed from their figures

The Francis Crick Institute Limited has filed 16 statutory payment periods (earliest H2 2018). Their latest report puts the average at 25 days against stated terms of 14–30 days.

The direction is faster: from 30 to 25 days over the window — about 5 days faster.

In the latest period 2% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 1% landed 61+ days out.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

The standard payment terms for the company is 30 days.

Dispute resolution

All day to day queries should in the first instance be sent to [email protected]. Further escalation of queries should be addressed to the Accounts Payable Manager and then to the Group Finance Director, both at the aforementioned email address.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2026	25	2%	1%	8 May 2026
H2 2025	25	1%	1%	31 Oct 2025
H1 2025	26	5%	2%	8 Apr 2025
H2 2024	26	5%	1%	22 Oct 2024
H1 2024	24	4%	1%	24 Apr 2024
H2 2023	30	6%	4%	30 Oct 2023
H1 2023	27	9%	4%	25 Apr 2023
H2 2022	26	8%	4%	20 Oct 2022
H1 2022	29	10%	6%	25 Apr 2022
H2 2021	29	30%	7%	28 Oct 2021
H1 2021	20	14%	5%	29 Apr 2021
H2 2020	30	15%	13%	21 Oct 2020
H1 2020	24	14%	6%	24 Apr 2020
H2 2019	29	14%	10%	23 Oct 2019
H1 2019	26	12%	5%	26 Apr 2019
H2 2018	29	12%	7%	29 Oct 2018

Working-capital effect

What a 25-day cycle ties up

Illustrative. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 25-day vs a 14-day payment cycle.

≈ £10,000

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 25-day cycle — about £4,300 more than the same account would carry at 14-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 5 days faster over the window (30 → 25 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest reports average around day 25, moving within about ±1 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 6,185 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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