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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

British Steel Limited pays suppliers in 58 days on average — inside its 105-day stated terms

CRN 12303256 · Manufacturing · 1 statutory report on record · period to 27 Dec 2025

58daysavg time to pay · H2 2025

Their H2 2025 filing puts the average 47 days inside their stated 105-day term.

Well behindvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
105 days
Paid outside agreed terms
71% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
50%
Reporting period
29 Jun 2025 – 27 Dec 2025
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 28 Jan 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H2 2025 filing

Paid 47 days inside the 105-day term they state

The read · computed from their figures

British Steel Limited's H2 2025 filing puts their average at 58 days against stated terms of 105 days; 71% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 50% took 61 days or longer. Filed 28 Jan 2026.

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 75% of the 977 large companies reporting in manufacturing.

That is one statutory period on record (earliest H2 2025) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

British Steel Limited's (BSL) standard payment terms is that payment of undisputed amounts will be made on the last day of the second month after the month of delivery or performance. This is provided the supplier's invoice quotes a relevant Purchase Order Number and the relevant Service Entry Sheet (SES) and that such invoice is received by BSL by the 5th day of the month following the month of the delivery.

Dispute resolution

BSL has a dedicated Accounts Payable Queries team who review and manage external communications from vendors regarding disputes, payments and general queries. The Queries team can be contacted via email ([email protected]), Monday to Thursday, 8.00am to 4.30pm and Friday, 8.00am to 12.30pm. The Queries team will review each query and respond where applicable or allocate and escalate to other functional areas of the business to review and provide resolution.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H2 20255871%50%28 Jan 2026

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
7 Nov 2019
Registered office
BRITISH STEEL, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, SCUNTHORPE, DN16 1XA
0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 30 Sept 2026 — overdue

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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.
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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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