Companies: Registration

(asked on 24th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch on 18 June (HL8190), what assessment they have made of analysis published by Tax Policy Associates on 17 May suggesting that 900,000 UK registered companies have no UK resident directors.


Answered by
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch Portrait
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
This question was answered on 8th July 2025

No specific assessment has been made in respect of the analysis in question. Relevant legislation does not impose UK residency requirements upon company directors.

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