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Large businesses' payment practices and performance statistics
This collection brings together all documents relating to large business payment practices and performance annual statistics.
These statistics show how large UK businesses pay their suppliers, using data reported under The Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017.
The statistics include:
- average time to pay (days)
- proportion of invoices paid late, by number (%)
- proportion of invoices paid late, by value (%)
- number of reports submitted by businesses
Each release presents:
- the annual averages for all reporting businesses
- region and sector breakdowns
For more statistics from the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), see Statistics at DBT.
Annual statistics
Other documents
Updates to this page
Published 14 July 2026