Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many full-time equivalent staff there are employed at Companies House who work solely on investigating the accuracy of company returns and suspicious entries.

The Registrar of Companies has no current powers to verify or investigate information properly delivered in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 or other enactments.

Whilst there is no single role that looks purely at the accuracy of company returns and suspicious entries, Companies House have 90 full time equivalents working in their Integrity and Intelligence Team.