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Company description
WILLIS GROUP SERVICES LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 1 October 1979; registered for 46 years; registered office reported in LONDON. Its primary declared activity is 82990 · Other business support service activities n.e.c..
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- WILLIS GROUP SERVICES LIMITED
- Company number
- 01451456
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 1 total · 1 outstanding · 0 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
1 May 2026Next statement due
15 May 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 29 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 45 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £90,862,073
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £33,436,539
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £9,804,712
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £26,844,399
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 71.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
The Company’s standard contractual payment terms for all qualifying contracts are no later than 60 days after the receipt of an invoice. Other payment terms may apply. Agreed payment terms are reflected in our contractual documentation and accounting system.
- Other payment-term information
Although the payment period under the Company’s standard payment terms runs from the date of receipt of the relevant invoice, for the purpose of calculating the metrics for this report, we have taken the date stated on the invoice itself as the commencement date for the payment period, and the statistics are reported against this measure. Consequently, it is likely that the statistics will show a greater level of late payments than is actually the case if strictly applying the standard payment terms.
Of the 44% of invoices due but not paid within agreed terms, 100% were made to companies external to the Willis Towers Watson Group. There are no formal disputes with suppliers regarding late payments. - Dispute resolution process
Payment processing is managed by the Accounts Payable function and any supplier queries are actioned by that team. In the event they are unable to resolve the matter, the query will be discussed between the supplier and relevant colleague to ensure satisfactory resolution for both the supplier and the Company.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 50.0 average days to pay36.0% outside terms
- 47.0 average days to pay41.0% outside terms
- 48.0 average days to pay41.0% outside terms
- 57.0 average days to pay46.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay37.0% outside terms
- 47.0 average days to pay37.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay37.0% outside terms
- 50.0 average days to pay35.0% outside terms
- 47.0 average days to pay34.0% outside terms
- 45.0 average days to pay36.0% outside terms
- 55.0 average days to pay35.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
04 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
WILLIS GROUP SERVICES LIMITED
LEI 5493005V7OF0N7ZHU470 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 1 October 1979
- Initial LEI registration
- 16 April 2013
- LEI last updated
- 5 November 2025
- Next renewal
- 21 December 2026
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- 51 LIME STREET, LONDON, GB-LND, EC3M 7DQ, GB
- Headquarters address
- 51 LIME STREET, LONDON, GB-LND, EC3M 7DQ, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 5493005V7OF0N7ZHU470 to LEI 549300WHC56FF48KL350
- Initial registration
- 16 April 2013
- Last updated
- 5 November 2025
- Next renewal
- 21 December 2026
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z; End: 2024-12-31T00:00:00Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2020-06-17T00:00:00Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: IFRS
- Validation reference
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01451456/filing-history/MzQ3NTQzOTk4NWFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_LEI
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
05 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Willis Group Services Limited
Registration Z6412938
- Registered from
- 6 March 2002
- Current end date
- 5 March 2027
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Willis International Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Company Limited By Shares
- Notified
- 29 November 2024
Willis Faber Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England & Wales
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Company Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- United Kingdom
- Registration number
- 1386469
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 29 November 2024
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07 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
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08 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
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09 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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11 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
13 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
14 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.