Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many requests were made by Companies House to query information (a) sent for acceptance to and (b) already published on the register using the new enforcement powers introduced in March 2024.

Since 4 March 2024 Companies House has been using its new powers to challenge, question and reject documents and to make enquiries about documents that have already been registered.

No figure for filings that have been queried prior to before registration is available.

To the year ending 4 March 2025, Companies House removed:

• 82,600 registered office addresses,
• 66,900 officer addresses,
• 55,100 PSC addresses,
• 11,200 other documents

Personal information was redacted from 49,800 incorporation documents. A further have been removed from the register. These actions have affected 100,400 companies in total.