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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating an administrative process to restore dissolved companies, in place of the current requirement to obtain a court order.

An administrative process to restore dissolved companies already exists under section 1025 of the Companies Act 2006. Such an application can only be made by a former director or member of the company. Other parties can apply to restore a company under section 1029 of the Act, but they must demonstrate to the court that they have a relevant interest in the dissolved company. We consider it appropriate for the court to make that judgment and, therefore, have no plans to amend the existing approach.