Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk
Qegsmat pays suppliers in 27 days on average — 25 days past its stated terms
Their H1 2025 filing puts the average 25 days past the 2-day term they state.
- Their stated terms
- 2 days
- Paid outside agreed terms
- 18% of invoices
- Paid after 61+ days
- 6%
- Reporting period
- 1 Mar 2025 – 31 Aug 2025
- Source
- their gov.uk filing, filed 4 Sept 2025
Self-reported figures from their statutory filing. How this is compiled.
Terms vs reality · their H1 2025 filing
Paid 25 days past their stated terms
Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices
The pattern · last 6 of 12 reports
17 → 27 days — slowing down
The read · computed from their figures
Qegsmat's H1 2025 filing puts their average at 27 days against stated terms of 2 days; 18% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 6% took 61 days or longer. Filed 4 Sept 2025.
The direction is slower: from 17 days in H1 2023 to 27 now — 10 days slower across their last 6 reports.
On the latest reported averages: Slower than 59% of the 309 large companies reporting in education.
That is 12 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2020) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.
In their own words · from the filing
Standard payment terms
30 days
Dispute resolution
contact [email protected]
Every statutory report on record
Most recent first.
| Period | Avg days | Outside terms | 61+ days | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H1 2025 | 27 | 18% | 6% | 4 Sept 2025 |
| H1 2025 | 24 | 12% | 6% | 28 Mar 2025 |
| H1 2024 | 27 | 21% | 6% | 9 Sept 2024 |
| H1 2024 | 30 | 39% | 6% | 4 Mar 2024 |
| H1 2023 | 25 | 32% | 5% | 12 Sept 2023 |
| H1 2023 | 17 | 13% | 3% | 1 Mar 2023 |
| H1 2022 | 17 | 12% | 3% | 7 Sept 2022 |
| H1 2022 | 17 | 13% | 3% | 3 Mar 2022 |
| H1 2021 | 20 | 18% | 4% | 20 Sept 2021 |
| H1 2021 | 17 | 12% | 3% | 4 Mar 2021 |
| H1 2020 | 17 | 13% | 4% | 9 Sept 2020 |
| H1 2020 | 27 | 17% | 4% | 13 Mar 2020 |
On the public register · Companies House
Company record
- Status
- Active
- Type
- PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
- Incorporated
- 8 Jul 2011
- Registered office
- QEGSMAT, ASHBOURNE, DE6 1EP
Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic
What a 27-day cycle ties up
A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 27-day vs a 2-day payment cycle.
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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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