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Companies: Registration

Asked by James McMurdockIndependentDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 22 June 2026UIN 10944

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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