Foreign Companies: Ownership
(asked on 17th June 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what is the number of of Overseas Entities who have (a) disclosed another entity as their beneficial owner; (b) declared that they do not have a beneficial owner and (c) declared a trust or trustee as their beneficial owner.
Answered by
Blair McDougall
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade) (Jointly with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Over 33,000 overseas entities have registered on the Register of Overseas Entities, supporting transparency over beneficial ownership.
Companies House does not publish or verify figures for the number of overseas entities that have (a) disclosed another entity as their beneficial owner, (b) declared that they do not have a beneficial owner, or (c) declared a trust or trustee as their beneficial owner.