RELX FINANCE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-28 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-14
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£4M
-88.4% vs 2023
Net assets
£3B
-26.3% vs 2023
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
£253M
-6.2% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | £2,317,272 | £2,295,033 | |
| Profit before tax | £269,653,076 | £252,857,672 | |
| Net profit | £206,264,640 | £189,644,181 | |
| Cash | £33,366,197 | £3,856,931 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | |
| Net assets | £4,487,064,492 | £3,305,322,461 | |
| Equity | £4,487,064,492 | £3,305,322,461 | |
| Average employees | 0 | 0 | |
| Wages | — | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 19.4% | 23.3% | |
| Current ratio | 2.63x | 2.28x | |
| Interest cover | 0.03x | 0.03x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence to 30 June 2026. Thus, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Significant events
- “As part of the Company's role in the RELX group's management of interest rate and foreign currency exposures, in March 2025 the Company entered into a series of cross-currency interest rate swaps which in aggregate had the effect of swapping $1bn of fixed rate US dollar exposure to $500m equivalent of fixed rate euro exposure and $500m equivalent of fixed rate yen exposure, for a 5 year or 10 year time period.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 4 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WESTLEY, Adam David Christopher | Secretary | 2021-11-15 | — | — |
| LUFF, Nicholas Lawrence | Director | 2019-01-31 | Mar 1967 | British |
| PERRY, Suzanne Michelle | Director | 2019-01-31 | Jun 1975 | British |
| UDOW, Henry Adam | Director | 2017-06-27 | Apr 1957 | British |
| WESTLEY, Adam David Christopher | Director | 2021-11-15 | Apr 1969 | British |
Show 4 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCULLOCH, Alan William | Secretary | 2017-07-10 | 2019-08-30 |
| PEREIRA, Simon John | Secretary | 2019-08-01 | 2021-11-15 |
| MCCULLOCH, Alan William | Director | 2017-06-27 | 2019-08-30 |
| PEREIRA, Simon John | Director | 2019-08-01 | 2021-11-15 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Relx (Uk) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2017-09-29 | Active |
| Relx (Holdings) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2017-06-27 | Ceased 2017-09-29 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 38 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-27 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-06-27 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-06-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-20 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-07-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-06-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-11-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-11-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-11-16 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2021-11-16 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2021-11-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-06-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-06-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-06-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-06-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
—
Not reported
-
Cash
-88.4%
£33,366,197 £3,856,931
-
Net assets
-26.3%
£4,487,064,492 £3,305,322,461
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-1%
£2,317,272 £2,295,033
-
Profit before tax
-6.2%
£269,653,076 £252,857,672
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers