Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk
British Energy Limited paid suppliers in 52 days on average — inside its 60-day stated terms
Their H2 2019 filing put the average 8 days inside their stated 60-day term.
- Their stated terms
- 60 days
- Paid outside agreed terms
- 9% of invoices
- Paid after 61+ days
- 5%
- Reporting period
- 1 Jul 2019 – 31 Dec 2019
- Source
- their gov.uk filing, filed 20 Jan 2020
Self-reported figures from their statutory filing. How this is compiled.
Terms vs reality · their H2 2019 filing
Paid 8 days inside the 60-day term they state
Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices
The pattern · last 4 of 4 reports
Held steady around 52 days
The read · computed from their figures
British Energy Limited's H2 2019 filing put their average at 52 days against stated terms of 60 days; 9% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 5% took 61 days or longer. Filed 20 Jan 2020.
The pattern is steady — their reported average moves within about ±1 days period to period.
That is 4 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.
What they tell their suppliers
In their own words · from the filing
Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms are 60 days from receipt of invoice. 60 days is also the maximum contractual payment period. By negotiation or other exception some suppliers are paid on terms less than 60 days. EDF Energy operates a process of paying twice each week with some invoices paid slightly early and some slightly late. For example a payment made on Thursday will have invoices for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday included with Wednesday being “late” but Friday and Saturday “early”. Over the supplier base and over time this averages out to zero days late for cases where there no problem with the invoice. Across the UK business as a whole we have between 5 – 10% late payments on this basis. There have been no changes to the standard payment terms during this reporting per
Dispute resolution
Suppliers must contact the individual named on the purchase order. After that a resolution is achieved based on the relevant provisions set out in the contract.
Every statutory report on record
Most recent first.
| Period | Avg days | Outside terms | 61+ days | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H2 2019 | 52 | 9% | 5% | 20 Jan 2020 |
| H1 2019 | 50 | 10% | 5% | 30 Jul 2019 |
| H2 2018 | 52 | 29% | 16% | 22 Jan 2019 |
| H1 2018 | 50 | 51% | 21% | 26 Jul 2018 |
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