Contact Companies House & HMRC.
Companies House:
https://www.gov.uk/contact-companies-house
0303 123 4500
enquiries@companieshouse.gov.uk
HMRC:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-revenue-customs
0300 200 3300
When the Companies Act 2006 was fully implemented on 1 October 2009, the Northern Ireland companies register was fully integrated into Companies House; previously, all limited companies in Northern Ireland were registered with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment.[citation needed]
As government departments were reorganised, Companies House came under the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (2007), the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (2009), and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (2016). Companies House was a member of the Public Data Group, an advisory board which between 2011 and 2015 sought to improve public access to government data.[24]
Companies House is also responsible for dissolving companies.[25]
In 2020, there were approximately 4.3 million businesses on the Companies House register.[26]
Number of undertakings registered with Companies House
Year ended Size of Total Register at year end
31 March 2014[27] 3,250,300
31 March 2015[28] 3,464,155
31 March 2016[29] 3,678,860
31 March 2017[30] 3,896,755
31 March 2018[31] 4,033,355
31 March 2019[32] 4,202,044
31 March 2020[33] 4,350,913
Response to 2020 pandemic
In view of the coronavirus pandemic, from 25 March 2020 companies were able to apply for a three-month extension to the annual deadline for filing their accounts and reports.[26]
By jurisdiction
The role of Registrar of Companies is not a political one, and the incumbent is a civil servant.
England and Wales
The Cardiff office
The Registrar of Companies for England and Wales is based at Companies House, Cardiff,[34] and is responsible for the registration of companies in England and Wales. Until 2011 there was another Companies House office in Nantgarw, Wales. The London office of Companies House, located at Petty France, is purely a facility to file and view documents, which are then processed in Cardiff.
Scotland
The Registrar of Companies for Scotland, is based at Companies House, Edinburgh, and is responsible for the registration of companies in Scotland.
Northern Ireland
The Registrar of Companies for Northern Ireland is based at Companies House, Belfast, and is responsible for the registration of companies in Northern Ireland.
Undertakings registered
