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Babcock Critical Services Limited

Registered as BABCOCK CRITICAL SERVICES LIMITED. Company number SC046710. 15 payment practices reports on file, the latest for the period ending 30 September 2025, filed 30 October 2025.

24days on average to pay

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

In the reporting period from 1 April 2025 to 30 September 2025, Babcock Critical Services Limited reported that it took an average of 24 days to pay its suppliers' invoices. It paid 90% of invoices within 30 days, 9% in 31 to 60 days and 1% after more than 60 days. It said 16% of invoices were not paid within the agreed terms.

That average is faster than 69% of the 6,220 companies whose latest report covers a period ending since May 2025. A year earlier, in the period to 30 September 2024, the average was 19 days, so it is 5 days slower now.

Average days to pay, report by report

30 49 Mar 2020 51 Sep 2020 37 Mar 2021 17 Sep 2021 30 Mar 2022 36 Sep 2022 33 Mar 2023 28 Sep 2023 17 Mar 2024 19 Sep 2024 23 Mar 2025 24 Sep 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
Apr to Sep 2025 30 Oct 2025 24 90%9%1%16% Report
Oct 2024 to Mar 2025 28 Apr 2025 23 91%8%1%16% Report
Apr to Sep 2024 28 Oct 2024 19 91%7%2%20% Report
Oct 2023 to Mar 2024 26 Apr 2024 17 95%5%0%18% Report
Apr to Sep 2023 26 Oct 2023 28 91%6%3%9% Report
Oct 2022 to Mar 2023 25 Apr 2023 33 83%11%6%17% Report
Apr to Sep 2022 27 Oct 2022 36 49%44%7%33% Report
Oct 2021 to Mar 2022 29 Apr 2022 30 73%22%5%27% Report
Apr to Sep 2021 29 Oct 2021 17 89%6%5%33% Report
Oct 2020 to Mar 2021 29 Apr 2021 37 82%12%6%25% Report
Apr to Sep 2020 29 Oct 2020 51 73%18%9%31% Report
Oct 2019 to Mar 2020 29 Apr 2020 49 57%23%19%49% Report
Apr to Sep 2019 14 Oct 2019 45 63%20%17%41% Report
Oct 2018 to Mar 2019 23 Apr 2019 48 55%30%15%47% Report
Apr to Sep 2018 30 Oct 2018 51 60%26%14%45% 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.