- Companies that charged: 23
- Their median days to pay: 45
- All companies, median days: 31
23 large UK companies said in their latest payment practices report that they had charged suppliers to remain on their list of suppliers. The question is part of the statutory report, and the other 6,201 companies with a current report said they had not.
The companies that said yes were F.W. Farnsworth Limited, Convenience Foods Limited, Building Solutions (National) Limited, Solway Foods Limited, Cavaghan & Gray Limited, Sherwin-Williams UK Limited, Macnaughton Blair Limited, IDH Limited, Petrie Tucker and Partners Limited, Whitecross Dental Care Limited, 2 Sisters Food Group Limited, De Vere Wokefield Estate Limited, De Vere 2 Limited, Michael I Holdsworth Limited, De Lage Landen Leasing Limited, Northern Foods Limited, Keolis Amey Metrolink Limited, Fevertree Limited, Reed Specialist Recruitment Limited, Fevertree UK Limited, Arthritis UK and Renewable Transport Fuel Services Limited.
Their median time to pay suppliers was 45 days, against 31 for all 6,224 large companies reporting. The slowest of them was F.W. Farnsworth Limited, at 63 days in the six months to 31 July 2026.
Charges to stay on a supplier list, sometimes called pay to stay, have been one of the questions in the statutory reports since they began in 2017. Each company page shows the answer from every report it has filed.
About these figures
Figures are what each company filed on the government's Check payment practices service, as downloaded on 9 November 2026. Large companies and limited liability partnerships must report every six months under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017. Unless stated, each company's latest report is used, counting only periods that ended on or after 10 May 2025, and reports with figures that cannot be right are left out. Companies whose latest figures look inconsistent with their earlier filings, such as an average more than double their previous report, are not named in our stories; they stay in the tables with a note. How we use the data.
Written by Fair Payment's data desk from the filed figures, without a human writing step. Source: Check payment practices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0.