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How fast companies registered in North Yorkshire pay their suppliers
44 large companies and LLPs with a registered office in North Yorkshire have filed a payment practices report for a period ending since May 2025. The typical one takes 36.5 days to pay an invoice, 5.5 days longer than the UK figure of 31 days.
36.5 daysTypical average time to pay (median)
39.5%Typical share of invoices paid within 30 days
2Companies averaging more than 60 days
14%Typical share not paid within agreed terms
Each company's latest report, for periods ending between 30 September 2025 and 30 September 2026. Location is the registered office on the Companies House register, which is not always where a company trades or employs people. Of the 14 council areas in Yorkshire and the Humber with at least five filers, North Yorkshire ranks ninth for the longest typical time to pay, where first is the slowest.
Every North Yorkshire company, slowest first
| # | Company | Period ending | Average days to pay | Paid within 30 days | Not paid within terms |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Severfield (Design & Build) Limited | 30 Sep 2025 | 102 | 28% | 24% |
| 2 | Kinetic Worldwide Limited | 30 Jun 2026 | 67 | 1% | 34% |
| 3 | Hire Station Limited | 30 Sep 2026 | 55 | 40% | 51% |
| 4 | Severfield UK Limited | 30 Sep 2026 | 55 | 11% | 72% |
| 5 | Drax Pumped Storage Limited | 30 Jun 2026 | 54 | 23% | 12% |
| 6 | Marlow Foods Limited | 30 Jun 2026 | 54 | 20% | 8% |
| 7 | Drax Corporate Limited | 30 Jun 2026 | 53 | 26% | 29% |
| 8 | National Tube Stockholders Limited | 30 Jun 2026 | 53 | 5% | 1% |
| 9 | Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions Limited | 30 Jun 2026 | 51 | 16% | 74% |
| 10 | Drax River Hydro Limited | 30 Jun 2026 | 51 | 15% | 15% |
| 11 | Drax Power Limited | 30 Jun 2026 | 50 | 29% | 19% |
| 12 | Mccain Foods (G.B.) Limited | 30 Jun 2026 | 48 | 37% | 34% |
| 13 | Opus Energy Limited | 31 Dec 2025 | 48 | 61% | 26% |
| 14 | VP PLC | 30 Sep 2026 | 48 | 25% | 29% |
| 15 | SBFM Limited | 31 May 2026 | 47 | 19% | 10% |
| 16 | Froneri Ice Cream UK Limited | 30 Jun 2026 | 45 | 26% | 8% |
| 17 | Provimi Limited | 31 May 2026 | 44 | 10% | 28% |
| 18 | De Vere Wokefield Estate Limited | 30 Jun 2026 | 40 | 20% | 1% |
| 19 | Dechra Limited | 30 Jun 2026 | 39 | 38% | 24% |
| 20 | De Vere 2 Limited | 30 Jun 2026 | 38 | 25% | 1% |
| 21 | Reed Boardall Cold Storage Limited | 30 Sep 2026 | 37 | 36% | 4% |
| 22 | Ripon Select Foods Limited | 29 Sep 2026 | 37 | 35% | 64% |
| 23 | The Reed Boardall Group Limited | 30 Sep 2026 | 36 | 78% | 49% |
| 24 | Bettys & Taylors of Harrogate Ltd | 30 Apr 2026 | 35 | 48% | 29% |
| 25 | J.N. Bentley Limited | 30 Jun 2026 | 35 | 39% | 7% |
| 26 | Bettys & Taylors Group Ltd | 30 Apr 2026 | 34 | 58% | 23% |
| 27 | Redcentric Solutions Limited | 30 Sep 2026 | 34 | 70% | 28% |
| 28 | Innserve Limited | 30 Jun 2026 | 31 | 60% | 13% |
| 29 | Opus Energy (Corporate) Limited | 31 Dec 2025 | 31 | 80% | 29% |
| 30 | W.Boyes & Co.,Limited | 31 Aug 2026 | 31 | 72% | 2% |
| 31 | Labcorp Early Development Laboratories Limited | 30 Jun 2026 | 29 | 60% | 11% |
| 32 | Elevate Multi Academy Trust | 31 Aug 2026 | 27 | 66% | 34% |
| 33 | RFS (Ripon) Limited | 31 Jul 2026 | 24 | 30% | 49% |
| 34 | Red Kite Learning Trust | 31 Aug 2026 | 24 | 81% | 1% |
| 35 | The Wilf Ward Family Trust | 30 Sep 2026 | 24 | 85% | 18% |
| 36 | The Camphill Village Trust Limited | 30 Sep 2026 | 21 | 92% | 0% |
| 37 | Jeremy Benn Associates Limited | 30 Apr 2026 | 19 | 89% | 0% |
| 38 | Yorkshire Causeway Schools Trust | 31 Aug 2026 | 16 | 93% | 0% |
| 39 | Ian Mosey (Livestock) Limited | 31 Aug 2026 | 15 | 98% | 2% |
| 40 | Ian Mosey Limited | 31 Aug 2026 | 13 | 94% | 3% |
| 41 | Drax Energy Solutions Limited | 30 Jun 2026 | 12 | 99% | 1% |
| 42 | Opus Energy Renewables Limited | 30 Jun 2026 | 12 | 99% | 3% |
| 43 | Ian Mosey Group Limited | 31 Aug 2026 | 0 | 100% | 0% |
| 44 | Mott Macdonald Bentley Ltd | 30 Jun 2026 | 0 | 100% | 0% |
Most invoices paid late
- Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions Limited74%
- Severfield UK Limited72%
- Ripon Select Foods Limited64%
- Hire Station Limited51%
- RFS (Ripon) Limited49%
- The Reed Boardall Group Limited49%
- Elevate Multi Academy Trust34%
- Kinetic Worldwide Limited34%
- Mccain Foods (G.B.) Limited34%
- Bettys & Taylors of Harrogate Ltd29%
Share of invoices not paid within the terms agreed with the supplier.
Construction and retentions
10 reported construction contracts in their latest period, and 4 said those contracts hold back retention money, typically at 3%.
- The Camphill Village Trust Limited3%
- J.N. Bentley Limitedrate not given
- Labcorp Early Development Laboratories Limitedrate not given
- Red Kite Learning Trustrate not given
Use this data
Free to use with credit to Fair Payment and, online, a link to this page. Download the North Yorkshire figures (CSV), see Yorkshire and the Humber as a whole, or read notes for journalists.
Source: payment practices reports filed by each company under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations, published by the Department for Business and Trade on Check payment practices, Open Government Licence v3.0. Registered office from Companies House. Data as filed to 3 November 2026.