Question follow-through · 16695
Companies: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring a company to confirm an address before registering it at Companies House.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 27 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 29 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring a company to confirm an address before registering it at Companies House.
29 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2024
Answer published
Through the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 we have given the registrar more powers to ensure address (and other) information on the register of companies is as accurate and complete as reasonably possible. Additionally, next year will ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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