Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Highland Fuels Limited pays suppliers in 24 days on average — within its stated 7–60 day terms

CRN SC032343 · Wholesale & retail trade · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Dec 2025

24daysavg time to pay · H2 2025

Their H2 2025 filing puts the average 17 days past the shortest term they state (7 days), still within their 60-day upper term.

Well behindvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers

Their stated terms: 7–60 days
Paid outside agreed terms: 91% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days: 2%
Reporting period: 1 Jul 2025 – 31 Dec 2025
Source: their gov.uk filing, filed 19 Jun 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H2 2025 filing

Paid within their stated range — 24 against 7–60 days

PAIDLATE · terms vs the clockdays to pay · 0–65

avg 24d

0 days65 days

reported avg 24 days their filed terms 7–60 days UK median 31 days · n = 6,104 recent filers

Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices

within 30 days 89% 31–60 days 9% 61+ days 2%

Source: their statutory Payment Practices Report #112391, period 1 Jul 2025 – 31 Dec 2025, filed 19 Jun 2026 · gov.uk payment-practices service

Highland Fuels Limited pays within its stated range, 17 days past the shortest term. 91% of invoices still went outside agreed terms; 2% reached 61 days or more. Self-reported in their statutory H2 2025 filing.

The pattern · last 6 of 16 reports

21 → 24 days — slowing down

PAIDLATE · the patternavg days per report

Last 6 of 16 filed reports · linear day scale · every period is in the table below · Source: gov.uk payment-practices service

3 days slower across the window. From 21 days in H1 2023 to 24 in the H2 2025 filing; the dashed line marks the 7-day term they state.

The read · computed from their figures

Highland Fuels Limited's H2 2025 filing puts their average at 24 days against stated terms of 7–60 days; 91% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 2% took 61 days or longer. Filed 19 Jun 2026.

The direction is slower: from 21 days in H1 2023 to 24 now — 3 days slower across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 83% of the 815 large companies reporting in wholesale & retail trade.

That is 16 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

What they tell their suppliers

9% of invoices in dispute

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Standard payment terms are as agreed with Suppliers or as per their standard terms and conditions.

Dispute resolution

Any disputes or complaints in the first instance are generally promptly resolved by the Purchase Ledger Supervisor or the Manager within the company responsible for authorising the invoices in question. On any rare occasions where these are not resolved, they are escalated to the Finance Director or Director with authorising responsibility depending on the nature of the invoice in question. Disputes or complaints are normally resolved within 5 working days.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H2 2025	24	91%	2%	19 Jun 2026
H1 2025	22	8%	3%	29 Jul 2025
H2 2024	20	8%	3%	29 Jul 2025
H1 2024	23	12%	3%	16 Aug 2024
H2 2023	20	12%	2%	1 May 2024
H1 2023	21	12%	2%	7 Nov 2023
H2 2022	22	12%	2%	7 Nov 2023
H1 2022	24	13%	3%	24 Aug 2022
H2 2021	23	9%	1%	1 Feb 2022
H1 2021	23	11%	2%	29 Jul 2021
H2 2020	22	12%	2%	27 Jan 2021
H1 2020	23	10%	1%	28 Jul 2020
H2 2019	23	10%	2%	28 Jan 2020
H1 2019	24	8%	1%	25 Jul 2019
H2 2018	22	8%	2%	30 Jan 2019
H1 2018	22	5%	2%	16 Jul 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 3 Jun 1957
Registered office: 2 MARISCHAL SQUARE, ABERDEEN, AB10 1DQ

3 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 24-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 24-day vs a 7-day payment cycle.

≈ £9,500

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 24-day cycle — about £6,700 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 · Highland Fuels Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 3 days slower over the window (21 → 24 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest filed report puts the average at day 24; across their last 6 reports it ranged 20–24 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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