How records attach
Two public records become useful when they already share an official identifier. The homepage attachments table counts those links. It does not count every similar name. We only index public bodies.
One identifier, two records
A company number on an officer appointment and on a land title is an attachment. An NHS organisation code on a directory row and on a published accounts year is an attachment. A charity number on a trustee list is an attachment. A person key is the internal id for someone already on a tracked body. We use the identifier the file already carries.
That is why a researcher can put a council, a supplier and a board member in the same picture without opening four portals and guessing.
Company number, organisation code, charity number, person key
Each row on the homepage is a kind of attachment we can already make. The large rows are company-number attachments: a land proprietor or a contract supplier that already carries a Companies House number. Officer seats sit lower because only company-form sources (BIDs, housing associations, some council companies) have a company number. Councils and NHS trusts are not Companies House entities.
The number is attachments, not investigations. A name-only tribunal match is labelled as a name.
Name in the text is not an attachment
A similar name is not an attachment. A surname is not an attachment. We do not invent a company number from a supplier string. A name that appears in a paper stays a name until an official identifier attaches it. Ask labels that grain. Search does too.
Public bodies only
We only index public bodies. A supplier, developer, or care-home Ltd appears when a public file or a published identifier attaches it. We do not run a private-company directory.