Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2023 to Question 193194 on Companies: Registration, what the (a) second, (b) third, (c) fourth and (d) fifth largest number of companies registered to a single address in the UK is.

The second, third, fourth and fifth largest number of limited companies registered to a single address in the UK are:

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.