PAIDLATE by YORXEN public-record company checks
← New check

Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Kingston Smith LLP pays suppliers in 32 days on average — within its stated 7–60 day terms

CRN OC317343 · 18 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Apr 2026

32daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 25 days past the shortest term they state (7 days), still within their 60-day upper term.

Slower than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
7–60 days
Paid outside agreed terms
53% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
10%
Reporting period
1 Nov 2025 – 30 Apr 2026
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 31 May 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid within their stated range — 32 against 7–60 days

The pattern · last 6 of 18 reports

20 → 32 days — slowing down

The read · computed from their figures

Kingston Smith LLP's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 32 days against stated terms of 7–60 days; 53% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 10% took 61 days or longer. Filed 31 May 2026.

The direction is slower: from 20 days in H2 2023 to 32 now — 12 days slower across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 51% of large companies reporting.

That is 18 statutory periods on record (earliest H2 2017) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

What they tell their suppliers

8% of invoices in dispute

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

We can't have only one standard payment set of terms for every single supplier given the wide scope of supplier types. 30 days is the expected standard by default unless otherwise agreed on an occasional individual basis. All invoices are subject to approval by budget holders in the first instance. Invoices payable 'on presentation' treated as 7 days.

Dispute resolution

Designated accounts payable email boxes for invoices, separate for statements and correspondence. Monitored and checked and answered by an experienced purchase ledger team. Suppliers are made aware of issues on invoices and can be directed to budget holders where authorisation is pending, or to further resolve any problems.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 20263253%10%31 May 2026
H2 20252951%6%29 Nov 2025
H1 20252629%4%28 May 2025
H2 20242428%2%29 Nov 2024
H1 20242324%2%6 Jun 2024
H2 20232014%3%30 Nov 2023
H1 20232629%6%31 May 2023
H2 20222223%3%26 Nov 2022
H1 20222118%2%31 May 2022
H2 20212526%6%29 Nov 2021
H1 20212630%4%27 May 2021
H2 20202426%5%16 Nov 2020
H1 20201920%2%29 May 2020
H2 20192020%2%30 Nov 2019
H1 20192122%3%23 May 2019
H2 20182423%4%26 Nov 2018
H1 20182625%6%25 May 2018
H2 2017222%2%30 Nov 2017

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Limited Liability Partnership
Incorporated
23 Jan 2006
Registered office
6TH FLOOR, LONDON, EC2A 2AP
1 outstanding charge — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

Open the full record at Companies House.

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 · Kingston Smith LLP

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 12 days slower over the window (20 → 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 20–32 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.
Can I see what this means for my invoices?
Run the live check — it re-reads their record and their live Companies House file, on the amount you invoice.
Share

Stay ahead

Watch Kingston Smith LLP (free)

Their next payment report is due ≈ 26 Nov 2026. We watch their public record and email you when something changes — a new payment report, late filings, insolvency markers, new charges.

You’ll get a confirmation email first. Unsubscribe any time. How we handle your address.

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).

Report PL-OC317343 · latest period to 30 Apr 2026

Verify the original Companies House file

Built by YORXEN LTD · registered in England & Wales · CRN 17303256 · privacy · terms.