Companies: Registration
(asked on 9th July 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many companies registered in England and Wales have declared a legal entity registered abroad as a person with significant control.
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)
This question was answered on 14th July 2026
In limited cases, a foreign company can be a Relevant Legal Entity (RLE) and can be legitimately recorded as a UK company's Person with Significant Control (PSC).
We identified 24,450 unique, non-dissolved companies on the England and Wales register that have at least one active RLE registered to an overseas country or territory as a PSC.