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National Express Limited

Registered as NATIONAL EXPRESS LIMITED. Company number 00232767. 16 payment practices reports on file, the latest for the period ending 31 December 2025, filed 26 January 2026.

38days on average to pay

  • Within 30 days
  • 31 to 60 days
  • Over 60 days

In the reporting period from 1 July 2025 to 31 December 2025, National Express Limited reported that it took an average of 38 days to pay its suppliers' invoices. It paid 89% of invoices within 30 days, 11% in 31 to 60 days and 0% after more than 60 days. It said 11% of invoices were not paid within the agreed terms.

That average is faster than 33% of the 6,220 companies whose latest report covers a period ending since May 2025. A year earlier, in the period to 31 December 2024, the average was 18 days, so it is 20 days slower now.

Average days to pay, report by report

30 28 Jun 2020 47 Dec 2020 25 Jun 2021 25 Dec 2021 18 Jun 2022 19 Dec 2022 22 Jun 2023 23 Dec 2023 17 Jun 2024 18 Dec 2024 41 Jun 2025 38 Dec 2025

Bars are labelled with the month the period ended. The dashed line marks 30 days.

Every report filed

PeriodFiledAverage daysWithin 30 days31 to 60Over 60Not within termsSource
Jul to Dec 2025 26 Jan 2026 38 89%11%0%11% Report
Jan to Jun 2025 5 Aug 2025 41 88%10%2%12% Report
Jul to Dec 2024 30 Jan 2025 18 87%11%2%2% Report
Jan to Jun 2024 19 Jul 2024 17 87%12%1%1% Report
Jul to Dec 2023 31 Jan 2024 23 81%16%3%3% Report
Jan to Jun 2023 14 Jul 2023 22 82%14%4%4% Report
Jul to Dec 2022 30 Jan 2023 19 87%11%2%2% Report
Jan to Jun 2022 26 Jul 2022 18 88%9%4%4% Report
Jul to Dec 2021 27 Jan 2022 25 86%11%3%3% Report
Jan to Jun 2021 5 Aug 2021 25 78%13%9%9% Report
Jul to Dec 2020 28 Jan 2021 47 69%14%17%17% Report
Jan to Jun 2020 31 Jul 2020 28 71%24%5%10% Report
Jul to Dec 2019 30 Jan 2020 27 77%19%4%9% Report
Jan to Jun 2019 30 Jul 2019 25 56%41%3%17% Report
Jul to Dec 2018 30 Jul 2019 23 63%35%3%18% Report
Jan to Jun 2018 30 Jul 2018 22 69%28%3%7% Report

Source: the company's filings on Check payment practices. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as filed. We do not change them.