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Payment practices by area
How quickly large companies pay their suppliers, grouped by where each company is registered. Across the UK the typical one takes 31 days.
6,132 of 6,220 current filers are placed by the postcode of their registered office on the Companies House register; 88 could not be placed. Registered office is not always where a company trades. Data as filed to 3 November 2026.
Regions
| Region | Companies | Typical days to pay | Typical % paid within 30 days | Averaging over 60 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Midlands | 319 | 36 | 44% | 36 |
| East of England | 445 | 33 | 58% | 29 |
| London | 2,201 | 27 | 76% | 132 |
| North East | 155 | 35 | 47% | 17 |
| North West | 512 | 35 | 50.5% | 45 |
| Northern Ireland | 73 | 35 | 51% | 5 |
| Scotland | 297 | 32 | 59% | 20 |
| South East | 976 | 32 | 63% | 86 |
| South West | 308 | 30.5 | 65.5% | 24 |
| Wales | 94 | 32 | 51% | 13 |
| West Midlands | 410 | 38 | 45% | 27 |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | 342 | 37 | 48% | 38 |
Council areas
Council areas with at least 5 companies filing.
East Midlands
Amber Valley (10), Ashfield (7), Bassetlaw (8), Blaby (20), Bolsover (10), Broxtowe (9), Charnwood (14), Derby (18), Derbyshire Dales (5), Erewash (5), Hinckley and Bosworth (5), Leicester (12), Newark and Sherwood (6), North Kesteven (6), North Northamptonshire (27), North West Leicestershire (27), Nottingham (34), Rushcliffe (12), South Holland (7), West Northamptonshire (39)
East of England
Basildon (8), Bedford (9), Brentwood (7), Broadland (6), Broxbourne (10), Cambridge (11), Central Bedfordshire (16), Chelmsford (7), Colchester (7), Dacorum (20), East Suffolk (5), Harlow (8), Hertsmere (21), Huntingdonshire (12), Ipswich (14), Luton (23), Mid Suffolk (9), North Hertfordshire (12), Norwich (21), Peterborough (22), South Cambridgeshire (31), South Norfolk (8), St Albans (9), Stevenage (21), Tendring (5), Three Rivers (19), Thurrock (5), Uttlesford (6), Watford (15), Welwyn Hatfield (21), West Suffolk (19)
London
Barnet (13), Brent (19), Bromley (8), Camden (200), City of London (602), Croydon (8), Ealing (10), Greenwich (8), Hackney (36), Hammersmith and Fulham (76), Harrow (6), Havering (6), Hillingdon (47), Hounslow (52), Islington (110), Kensington and Chelsea (21), Kingston upon Thames (9), Lambeth (31), Merton (10), Newham (21), Richmond upon Thames (17), Southwark (167), Sutton (12), Tower Hamlets (185), Wandsworth (16), Westminster (497)
North East
County Durham (16), Darlington (9), Gateshead (18), Middlesbrough (6), Newcastle upon Tyne (31), North Tyneside (16), Northumberland (9), Stockton-on-Tees (6), Sunderland (37)
North West
Blackburn with Darwen (11), Bolton (18), Cheshire East (34), Cheshire West and Chester (29), Chorley (6), Cumberland (14), Fylde (10), Halton (23), Hyndburn (6), Knowsley (6), Liverpool (35), Manchester (69), Oldham (10), Preston (11), Rochdale (6), Salford (41), Sefton (11), South Ribble (10), St. Helens (8), Stockport (39), Trafford (38), Warrington (31), West Lancashire (6), Westmorland and Furness (6), Wigan (7), Wirral (7)
Northern Ireland
Antrim and Newtownabbey (7), Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon (10), Belfast (33), Fermanagh and Omagh (5), Lisburn and Castlereagh (6), Mid Ulster (6)
Scotland
Aberdeen (25), Aberdeenshire (16), Edinburgh (71), Falkirk (5), Fife (14), Glasgow (68), Highland (5), Moray (12), North Lanarkshire (11), Perth and Kinross (16), Renfrewshire (13), South Lanarkshire (6), Stirling (5), West Lothian (8)
South East
Arun (5), Ashford (11), Basingstoke and Deane (25), Bracknell Forest (21), Brighton and Hove (7), Buckinghamshire (64), Canterbury (6), Cherwell (21), Chichester (8), Crawley (21), Dartford (13), East Hampshire (5), Eastleigh (17), Elmbridge (32), Epsom and Ewell (7), Fareham (7), Guildford (9), Hart (16), Havant (6), Horsham (9), Maidstone (6), Medway (8), Mid Sussex (11), Milton Keynes (53), Mole Valley (21), New Forest (24), Oxford (15), Portsmouth (7), Reading (65), Reigate and Banstead (23), Runnymede (21), Rushmoor (20), Sevenoaks (23), Slough (36), South Oxfordshire (13), Southampton (10), Spelthorne (16), Surrey Heath (26), Swale (7), Tandridge (6), Test Valley (12), Tonbridge and Malling (22), Vale of White Horse (21), West Berkshire (29), West Oxfordshire (10), Winchester (20), Windsor and Maidenhead (63), Woking (16), Wokingham (24), Worthing (8)
South West
Bath and North East Somerset (15), Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (17), Bristol (46), Cheltenham (7), Cornwall (18), Cotswold (7), Dorset (9), Exeter (9), North Devon (6), North Somerset (9), Plymouth (7), Somerset (21), South Gloucestershire (23), Stroud (11), Swindon (34), Tewkesbury (15), Wiltshire (34)
Wales
Bridgend (7), Cardiff (14), Flintshire (14), Newport (6), Powys (5), Rhondda Cynon Taf (10), Swansea (5), Wrexham (7)
West Midlands
Birmingham (78), Bromsgrove (7), Cannock Chase (10), Coventry (20), Dudley (5), East Staffordshire (21), Herefordshire (5), Lichfield (11), North Warwickshire (9), Redditch (10), Rugby (12), Sandwell (11), Shropshire (5), Solihull (61), Stafford (8), Stoke-on-Trent (30), Stratford-on-Avon (6), Tamworth (5), Telford and Wrekin (24), Walsall (13), Warwick (19), Wolverhampton (10), Worcester (7), Wychavon (7)
Yorkshire and the Humber
Barnsley (6), Bradford (24), Calderdale (13), Doncaster (19), East Riding of Yorkshire (19), Kingston upon Hull (14), Kirklees (19), Leeds (91), North East Lincolnshire (5), North Yorkshire (44), Rotherham (10), Sheffield (29), Wakefield (29), York (17)