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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Exova (UK) Limited paid suppliers in 49 days on average — inside its 60-day stated terms

CRN SC070429 · Professional & technical services · 1 statutory report on record · period to 30 Jun 2018

Dated record. The latest report covers a period ending 30 Jun 2018 and the company hasn’t filed since (it may have dropped below the reporting threshold). Treat the figures as historical.
49daysavg time to pay · H1 2018

Their H1 2018 filing put the average 11 days inside their stated 60-day term.

Their stated terms
60 days
Paid outside agreed terms
26% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
12%
Reporting period
1 Jan 2018 – 30 Jun 2018
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 2 Jan 2019

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2018 filing

Paid 11 days inside the 60-day term they state

The read · computed from their figures

Exova (UK) Limited's H1 2018 filing put their average at 49 days against stated terms of 60 days; 26% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 12% took 61 days or longer. Filed 2 Jan 2019.

That is one statutory period 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

It is the Company’s policy to pay supplier invoices within the supplier terms and to abide by those terms based on the timely submission of satisfactory invoices. Supplier payment terms are agreed individually with each supplier either prior to or upon commencement of a service or the delivery of goods. The most common payment terms agreed during the period were 60 days.

Dispute resolution

Disputes should be resolved to adhere to payment terms. All our suppliers have clear contact details for our Accounts Payable team, so if they have any disputes or complaints they can contact the company by either email or phone. The accounts payable team will reach out to the invoice contact if not clear from the system why the invoice has not been approved for payment.

Other information

The company operates weekly payment runs, the analysis provided is based on the company’s policy to pay invoices in the payment run on or following the due date

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 20184926%12%2 Jan 2019

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
17 Jan 1980
Registered office
ATRIA ONE, EDINBURGH, EH3 8EX
0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

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Quick answers · Exova (UK) Limited

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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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