Companies: Registration
Commons · Question 84514 · Tabled 22 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Carla Denyer
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of mechanisms to safeguard against a residential address being fraudulently used to register a company without the knowledge of the resident of the address
Answer
Answered by Blair McDougall, 27 Oct 2025
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 strengthened Companies House’s powers to query or reject inaccurate or suspicious addresses, enabling the Registrar to act swiftly and decisively against misuse of residential addresses.Many fraudulen...