Sam Allcock is a digital media and public relations entrepreneur and the editor and publisher of Fair Payment. He has built and runs a portfolio of independent online news and data titles, and started Fair Payment to give suppliers a plain record of how the companies they deal with pay their bills.
Fair Payment is published by Domain Farm Ltd. It is independent of any trade body, lender or government department.
How Fair Payment's stories are written
Every story is a data report. The text is produced by fixed templates from the filed figures, so every number comes straight from the records; the templates were written with AI assistance. Sam Allcock, the editor, checks each story before it is published and is answerable for it.
Nothing in a story is changed after it is published unless it is wrong, and then the page says what changed. Corrections: editor@fairpaymentcampaign.co.uk.
Stories
- Supplier termsSix companies that name a payment code average more than 60 days to pay suppliers
- Supplier termsCompanies offering supply chain finance take a median 49 days to pay suppliers, against 30 for the rest
- InsolvenciesHow companies paid their suppliers before they failed: TalkTalk Telecom Limited averaged 64 days
- Supplier terms23 large companies say they charged suppliers to stay on their supplier list
- National pictureLarge UK companies take a median of 31 days to pay suppliers, and 481 average more than 60
- Construction815 large companies hold back retentions on construction contracts, with 5% the usual rate
- MoversPetrofac Engineering Limited takes 242 days to pay suppliers, up from 112, as 2,377 large companies slow down
- Slowest payersThe Boots Company PLC is the slowest-paying PLC at 88 days, latest reports show
- Latest filings650 new payment reports filed in the week to 3 November 2026: John Dewar and Sons Limited slowest at 105 days