SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER UK LTD
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† SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER UK LTD filed these accounts on paper, so Companies House publishes them only as a scanned image. The figures for the years marked † were read automatically from the scan and kept only where the statements add up (for example net assets equal total equity), but a reading error is still possible — check the original accounts at Companies House.
Ratios
2025Sector comparison
SIC 30300Where the company stands among the 884 active companies whose first SIC code is 30300 (Manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery).
- BAE SYSTEMS (OPERATIONS) LIMITED£4.5bn
- AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED£3.3bn
- GKN AEROSPACE HOLDINGS LIMITED£1.3bn
- GKN AEROSPACE SERVICES LIMITED£933.1m
- MARTIN-BAKER AIRCRAFT COMPANY LIMITED£343.3m
- SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER UK LTD£238.6m
- AGUSTAWESTLAND LIMITED£174.5m
- SAFRAN SEATS GB LIMITED£160.1m
- MOOG CONTROLS LIMITED£112.2m
- AVIATION MARKETING CONSULTANTS INDUSTRIES LIMITED£100m
Positions are approximate. Figures come from each company's latest accounts; money and employee figures are compared only with companies that filed accounts in pounds for a period ending in the last two and a half years and are not dormant, so those groups are smaller than 884. The line on each bar marks the median.
Summary: SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER UK LTD
What kind of company is it?
SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER UK LTD is a private limited company registered with Companies House under company number 08292872. It was incorporated on 14 Nov 2012. Its status is active. The registered office is in Leighton buzzard (LU7). Its nature of business (SIC 2007) is manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery (30300).
How is the company doing financially?
The latest accounts in the database are for 2025 (period ending 31 Dec 2025); the company files full accounts. Turnover was £182,220,000. Profit for the year was £27,354,000. Net assets were £238,573,000, up 12.8% on the previous year. The company had an average of 431 employees. Figures are available for 2 financial years (2024–2025).
How does it compare with similar companies?
Compared with 884 active companies whose first SIC code is 30300: By turnover it ranks higher than 84% of the 52 that publish turnover (median £28,889,000). By net assets it ranks higher than 98% of them (median £1,000). By total assets it ranks higher than 97% of them (median £28,422). By number of employees it ranks higher than 96% of them (median 1). It is older than 77% of them (median age 3.0 years).
Has it received government grants?
It is recorded as the recipient of 12 central government grants worth £13.8m, mainly from Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
What do public registers and reports show?
It appears on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors (Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker). HMRC lists it as an importer of goods, mainly optical, medical and measuring instruments, rubber, iron and steel articles. HMRC lists it as an exporter of goods, mainly optical, medical and measuring instruments, aircraft, electrical equipment. In its latest payment practices report it took an average of 52 days to pay suppliers, and 17% of invoices were not paid within agreed terms. Its gender pay gap report for 2025/26 shows median hourly pay for women 3.4% higher than for men. It has modern slavery statements on the government registry for 7 years.
Who runs and controls the company?
One person with significant control is registered.
When are its next filings due?
The next accounts are due by 30 Sep 2027. The next confirmation statement is due by 21 Nov 2026.
Filed accounts2024–2025
| 2024 † | 2025 † | |
|---|---|---|
| Turnover | 172,350,000 | 182,220,000 |
| Profit for the year | 19,281,000 | 27,354,000 |
| Total assets | 269,679,000 | 310,624,000 |
| Total liabilities | — | — |
| Net assets / total equity | 211,525,000 | 238,573,000 |
| Average number of employees | — | 431 |
A dash (—) means no accounts were filed for that year or the item is not in the accounts; 0 is a zero stated in the accounts. Small companies usually file only a balance sheet, so the profit and loss account is often missing.
Government grants
12 grantsSAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER UK LTD is recorded as the recipient of 12 central government grants since 2019, together worth £13.8m.
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
- 5 grants · £10m
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- 7 grants · £3.8m
- FABB-HVDC (Future Aerospace power conversion Building Blocks for High Voltage DC electrical power systems)Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £107,439 · UKRI-ATI-Scheme
- AeroMC Aerospace Manufacturing Capability for electrical machinesDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £510,061 · UKRI - Innovate UK - Scheme 22/23
- Aerospace Electric Propulsion Equipment, Controls & machines (AEPEC)Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £342,449 · UKRI - Innovate UK - Scheme 22/23
- SMPP (Scaleable Multi-Platorm Power Systems)Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · −£1,784 · UKRI - Innovate UK - Scheme 22/23
- AeroMC Aerospace Manufacturing Capability for electrical machinesDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £2,189,739 · UKRI - Innovate - Scheme 21/22
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- AeroMC Aerospace Manufacturing Capability for electrical machinesDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology · £1,129,995 · UKRI - Innovate UK - Scheme
- AeroMC Aerospace Manufacturing Capability for electrical machinesDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology · £1,129,995 · UKRI - Innovate UK - Scheme
- AeroMC Aerospace Manufacturing Capability for electrical machinesDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology · £763,735 · UKRI-ATI-Scheme
- Aerospace Electric Propulsion Equipment, Controls & machines (AEPEC)Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £6,916,181 · ALB - UKRI - Innovate UK grant awards in 20-21
- Aerospace Electric Propulsion Equipment, Controls & machines (AEPEC)Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £61,568 · UKRI - Innovate UK - Scheme
- Aerospace Electric Propulsion Equipment, Controls & machines (AEPEC)Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £61,568 · UKRI - Innovate UK - Scheme
- Aerospace Electric Propulsion Equipment, Controls & machines (AEPEC)Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £554,050 · UKRI - Innovate UK - Scheme
From the Government Grants Register published by the Cabinet Office (financial years 2016/17 onwards, Open Government Licence v3.0). It covers grants from central government departments and their agencies where the register states the recipient's company number and the recipient name matches this company; grants from local authorities, lottery distributors and devolved governments are not included.
Statutory reporting
- Average time taken to pay invoices
- 52 days
- Invoices not paid within agreed terms
- 17%
- Standard payment terms
- 1–60 days
- Member of a payment code
- No
- Within 30 days 33%
- 31 to 60 days 50%
- After 60 days 17%
Earlier periods (7)
- Period ending
- Days to pay
- Within 30 days
- Late
- 31 Dec 2025
- 64
- 31%
- 19%
- 30 Jun 2025
- 56
- 33%
- 21%
- 31 Dec 2024
- 54
- 32%
- 19%
- 30 Jun 2024
- 51
- 27%
- 22%
- 31 Dec 2023
- 54
- 27%
- 27%
- 30 Jun 2023
- 53
- 33%
- 22%
- 31 Dec 2022
- 52
- 30%
- 22%
- Median hourly pay
- women 3.4% higher
- Mean hourly pay
- women 0.2% higher
- Median bonus pay
- women 38.5% higher
- Employer size
- 250 to 499 employees
Earlier years (7)
- Year
- Median hourly pay
- Mean hourly pay
- 2024/25
- women 0.9% higher
- women 0.2% higher
- 2023/24
- women 5.6% lower
- women 2% lower
- 2022/23
- women 9.5% lower
- women 6.8% lower
- 2021/22
- women 4.5% lower
- women 6.2% lower
- 2020/21
- women 2.7% higher
- women 0.7% higher
- 2018/19
- women 5.3% lower
- women 4.6% lower
- 2017/18
- women 8.3% lower
- women 6.5% lower
A positive gap means women's average hourly pay is lower than men's across the whole employer; it is not a comparison of pay for the same work. View on the Gender pay gap service
- 2026
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK
- 2025
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK
- 2024
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK
Earlier years (4)
- 2023
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK
- 2022
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK
- 2021
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK
- 2020
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK
Figures the company reported itself to the government's Check payment practices service, Gender pay gap service and Modern slavery statement registry (Open Government Licence v3.0). Only large companies and employers with 250 or more staff have to report, so most companies have nothing here.
Registers and licences
- Licence type and rating
- Worker (A rating)
- Routes
- Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker
On the Home Office register of licensed sponsors, which lists organisations licensed to sponsor workers from overseas.
Listed by HMRC as an importer of goods in 12 of the last 12 months on record, most recently August 2026. Main goods: optical, medical and measuring instruments, rubber, iron and steel articles, machinery and electrical equipment.
Listed by HMRC as an exporter of goods in 12 of the last 12 months on record, most recently August 2026. Main goods: optical, medical and measuring instruments, aircraft and electrical equipment.
From HMRC's monthly lists of importers and exporters. Traders can ask to be left off the lists, so absence does not mean a company does not trade.
Sources: Charity Commission for England and Wales, Care Quality Commission, Home Office and HM Revenue & Customs, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Entries marked ‡ come from lists that do not state a company number and were linked by an exact match on the registered name.
History
5 events- Financial year 2025 endedAccounts: turnover £182.2m, net assets £238.6m, 431 employees
- Financial year 2024 endedAccounts: turnover £172.4m, net assets £211.5m
- Safran registered as a person with significant control
- Name changed to SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER UK LTDPreviously SAFRAN POWER UK LTD.
- Company incorporatedPrivate limited company
Dates as recorded at Companies House: incorporation, name changes, officer appointments and resignations, current persons with significant control, and the end of each financial year with figures in the database. Former persons with significant control are not listed.