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Companies: Registration

Commons · Question 10945 · Tabled 17 Jun 2026 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 22 Jun 2026

Question

Asked by James McMurdock

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Companies House press release entitled Progress made in cleaning up Companies House register as further steps taken to tackle economic crime, published on 11 June 2026, how many r

Answer

Answered by Blair McDougall, 22 Jun 2026

When we are aware of an address being misused, we remove the address by defaulting the address. As of 15 June 2026, there have been 162,534 removals and rectifications for defaulted registered office addresses which has impacted 160,652 corporate bodies.