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Companies: Northern Ireland

Asked by Robin SwannUlster Unionist PartyDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 4 September 2025UIN 71704

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To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 22 July to Question 68868 on Companies: Economic Crime, of the businesses dissolved, how many had five or more registered at one address.

Answered by Justin Madders

Between April 2024 and March 2025, there were 70 addresses where 5 or more companies were dissolved in Northern Ireland. This impacted a total of 852 companies.

A further 3,000 companies were located at the Companies House default address at the time of their dissolution during this period.

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