Companies: Registration
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Companies House press release entitled Progress made in cleaning up Companies House register as further steps taken to tackle economic crime, published on 11 June 2026, how many suspicious filings have been rejected by Companies House since the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 came into force.
Answered by Blair McDougall
We do not hold information in this way, identifying suspicious filings. We can provide a monthly breakdown of rejected filings since April 2025.
Month | FY | Rejected Filings |
Apr | 2025/26 | 52,436 |
May | 2025/26 | 45,948 |
Jun | 2025/26 | 46,037 |
Jul | 2025/26 | 49,754 |
Aug | 2025/26 | 43,447 |
Sep | 2025/26 | 52,049 |
Oct | 2025/26 | 58,055 |
Nov | 2025/26 | 79,978 |
Dec | 2025/26 | 104,174 |
Jan | 2025/26 | 123,918 |
Feb | 2025/26 | 108,630 |
Mar | 2025/26 | 113,826 |
Apr | 2026/27 | 95,942 |
May | 2026/27 | 81,442 |
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