Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what is the largest number of companies registered to a single address in the UK.

The largest number of limited companies registered to a single address is 77,634.

Many companies may choose the address of an agent or mail-forwarding company as their registered address for entirely legitimate administrative reasons. Nevertheless, provisions in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill 2002 currently before Parliament will give the Registrar of Companies new powers to verify the identity of those incorporating all companies and to require evidence that the address at which they propose to register the company is an appropriate one.