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Companies House: Databases

Asked by Mr Richard HoldenConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 4 September 2025UIN 71196

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2025 to Question 62769 on Companies House: Databases, whether Companies House plans to remove entry 08881386 from the register.

Answered by Justin Madders

Companies House will take appropriate action using the powers available whenever suspicious information is brought to its attention or identified by internal checks.

The company in question was dissolved in 2018 and does not form part of the Register of Companies, though its records will remain available for 20 years.

Companies House will act to remove inaccurate information relating to the company in question from the public records.

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