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Company description
BABCOCK COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 9 May 1996; registered for 30 years; registered office reported in LONDON. Its primary declared activity is 61900 · Other telecommunications activities.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 1 procurement record. 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
- BABCOCK COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
- Company number
- 03196204
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 3 total · 0 outstanding · 3 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 March 2025Next accounts due
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
11 November 2025Next statement due
25 November 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 October 2021 – 31 March 2022
- Filed
- 29 April 2022
- Shortest standard term
- 7 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-1
- Financial period started
- Not supplied
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £0
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 18.0%
- 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
Standard T&Cs are 60 days for new suppliers.
We currently have a range of T&Cs in place with existing suppliers including terms at 7 days, 30 days, 45 days and 60 days. - Dispute resolution process
Relationships with our suppliers are important to us. We rely on our suppliers to deliver high quality goods and services in order to meet the needs of our own customers. Suppliers should be notified in the event of any disputes, and our purchase contracts specify dispute escalation processes. We commit to treating suppliers fairly, and intend to resolve any identified disputes as quickly as possible. Point of Contact details are provided on purchase orders.
This process is reviewed annually.
Earlier payment reports (7 shown)
- 21.0 average days to pay13.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay22.0% outside terms
- 34.0 average days to pay31.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay21.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay28.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay40.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay42.0% 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
BABCOCK COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
LEI 213800HJLKQ9DC3OIH14 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- Not supplied
- Initial LEI registration
- 10 September 2013
- LEI last updated
- 19 October 2022
- Next renewal
- 18 October 2022
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- 33 WIGMORE STREET, LONDON, GB-LND, W1U 1QX, GB
- Headquarters address
- 33 WIGMORE STREET, LONDON, GB-LND, W1U 1QX, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 213800HJLKQ9DC3OIH14 to LEI 213800TSKOLX4EU6L377
- Related legal entity
- BABCOCK INTERNATIONAL GROUP PLC →
- Initial registration
- 10 September 2013
- Last updated
- 19 October 2022
- Next renewal
- 18 October 2022
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z; End: 2020-03-31T00:00:00Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2013-09-10T00:00:00Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: IFRS
- Validation reference
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03196204/filing-history/MzI3NTg4NDQyN2FkaXF6a2N4/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 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- BABCOCK COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- BABCOCK INTERNATIONAL GROUP PLC
- Statement period
- 1 April 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Approved
- 27 May 2026
- Sectors
- Defence and aerospace
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Covered in the statement
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- Over £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 10 August 2026
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
06 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Babcock Communications Limited
Registration Z5127729
- Registered from
- 16 November 2000
- Current end date
- 15 November 2026
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.
07 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
701550380
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE · ocds-b5fd17-5bf63273-79aa-4a7c-9bc9-40f1ccbaecce
- Supplier named in award
- BABCOCK COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
- Award value
- £256,226
- Contract period
- 1 June 2021 – 31 May 2024
- Published
- 23 August 2021
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 32000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-5bf63273-79aa-4a7c-9bc9-40f1ccbaecce-2021-08-23T13:31:15+01:00
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Babcock Support Services (Investments) Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England And Wales
- Legal authority
- United Kingdom (England And Wales)
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 4393168
- Notified
- 6 December 2019
Merlin Communications Group Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England And Wales
- Legal authority
- United Kingdom (England And Wales)
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 3264941
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 6 December 2019
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
09 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.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
10 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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11 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
12 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
13 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.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
14 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
15 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.
16 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
- Company name
Previous name: VT COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
17 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.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
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.