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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

VBMS (UK) Limited pays suppliers in 32 days on average — within its stated 7–45 day terms

CRN 07130752 · Construction · 15 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Dec 2025

32daysavg time to pay · H2 2025

Their H2 2025 filing puts the average 25 days past the shortest term they state (7 days), still within their 45-day upper term.

Around averagevs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
7–45 days
Paid outside agreed terms
33% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
1%
Reporting period
1 Jul 2025 – 31 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 — 32 against 7–45 days

The pattern · last 6 of 15 reports

48 → 32 days — getting faster

The read · computed from their figures

VBMS (UK) Limited's H2 2025 filing puts their average at 32 days against stated terms of 7–45 days; 33% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 1% took 61 days or longer. Filed 30 Jan 2026.

The direction is faster: from 48 days in H2 2022 to 32 now — 16 days faster across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 57% of the 394 large companies reporting in construction.

That is 15 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

General purchasing terms and conditions apply to all suppliers with the exception of specific contracts where the contract dictates payment terms. Payment terms are stated as 45 days from the receipt of the relevant invoice.

Dispute resolution

When an invoice is disputed either the point of contact for the purchase or the purchase ledger department will contact the supplier. To resolve the dispute, the supplier is required to provide any missing information, a credit note and/or a corrected invoice. The invoice will only be sent for payment once this information is received and approved by the relevant personnel.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H2 20253233%1%30 Jan 2026
H1 20253436%2%11 Aug 2025
H2 20243223%0%30 Jan 2025
H1 2024373%14%2 Aug 2024
H1 20232341%13%31 Jul 2023
H2 20224864%31%31 Jan 2023
H1 20224259%10%13 Jul 2022
H2 20214558%13%31 Jan 2022
H1 20214260%10%8 Jul 2021
H2 20203751%9%20 Jan 2021
H1 20203541%9%17 Jul 2020
H2 20192838%5%29 Jan 2020
H1 20192751%3%26 Jul 2019
H2 20182831%4%22 Jan 2019
H1 20182747%6%30 Jul 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
20 Jan 2010
Registered office
WESTMINSTER HOUSE CROMPTON WAY, FAREHAM, PO15 5SS
0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 31 Dec 2026

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 32-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 32-day vs a 7-day payment cycle.

≈ £12,500
of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 32-day cycle — about £9,900 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 · VBMS (UK) Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 16 days faster over the window (48 → 32 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report puts the average at day 32; across their last 6 reports it ranged 23–48 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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