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Companies: Registration

Asked by Steff AquaroneLiberal DemocratDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 14 July 2026UIN 17543

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many companies registered in England and Wales have declared a legal entity registered abroad as a person with significant control.

Answered by Blair McDougall

In limited cases, a foreign company can be a Relevant Legal Entity (RLE) and can be legitimately recorded as a UK company's Person with Significant Control (PSC).

We identified 24,450 unique, non-dissolved companies on the England and Wales register that have at least one active RLE registered to an overseas country or territory as a PSC.

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