Companies in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are registered with Companies House. Its Find and update company information service is free and shows the company's details, its officers, the people with significant control over it, its charges and its full filing history, with free images of the documents filed. The UK is the most open of the major registers: directors, beneficial owners and the shareholders listed on the confirmation statement are all public.
Fill Easy returns Companies House documents as a consolidated PDF report by email or through the API, with the source, retrieval time and request ID recorded on each result. Turnaround is confirmed with the order.
Registry
Executive agency of the Department for Business and Trade
Companies House is the registrar of companies for the United Kingdom, with Registrars for England and Wales (Cardiff), Scotland (Edinburgh) and Northern Ireland (Belfast). It holds the registers of companies, limited liability partnerships and limited partnerships, and the Register of Overseas Entities, under the Companies Act 2006.
Search is free by company name, number or officer name. The record shows the registered office, incorporation date, nature of business and status; the officers with their correspondence addresses; the people with significant control; outstanding charges; insolvency events; and every document filed, downloadable as an image. Companies House does not verify the content of what companies file, but under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 identity verification for directors and people with significant control became a legal requirement on 18 November 2025.
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Company number
8 characters. Companies registered in England and Wales have 8 digits (for example 02050399). Other registers use a 2-character prefix and 6 digits, as listed in Companies House's URI customer guide: SC (Scotland), NI (Northern Ireland) and R0 (pre-partition Northern Ireland), OC, SO and NC (LLPs in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland), LP, SL and NL (limited partnerships), FC (overseas company), and others such as SE for a European company.
| Document | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Company overview | Company name and number, status, type, date of incorporation, registered office, SIC codes, and the dates of the last and next accounts and confirmation statement. |
| Officers | Current and resigned directors and secretaries with role, appointment and resignation dates, correspondence address, nationality, country of residence, occupation and month and year of birth. |
| People with significant control (PSC register) | Individuals and entities holding more than 25% of shares or voting rights, the right to appoint or remove a majority of the board, or significant influence or control, with the nature of control, and ceased PSCs. |
| Confirmation statement | The annual confirmation of the register, including the statement of capital and, for a private company, the shareholders and their holdings as at the confirmation date. |
| Accounts | The annual accounts filed for each financial year, from full accounts to micro-entity or dormant accounts depending on the company's size, as filed images. |
| Filing history | Every document filed with Companies House, with its date and type, from incorporation documents and changes of officers to charges, resolutions and insolvency notices, downloadable free as images. |
| Charges | Mortgages and charges registered against the company, with the persons entitled, the date created and whether satisfied. |
Yes, for a private company. The confirmation statement filed each year lists the shareholders and their holdings as at the confirmation date, and the PSC register names anyone holding more than 25% of the shares or voting rights or otherwise controlling the company. Both are free on Companies House.
8 characters. England and Wales companies have 8 digits; Scottish companies start SC, Northern Ireland companies NI, LLPs OC, SO or NC, and limited partnerships LP, SL or NL, each followed by 6 digits.
The register of people with significant control, which every UK company and LLP must keep and file with Companies House. It identifies individuals and relevant legal entities with more than 25% of shares or voting rights, the right to appoint or remove a majority of directors, or significant influence or control.
Yes. The Find and update company information service is free, including images of filed documents, and needs no registration. Fill Easy's value is the consolidated report, the audit trail and delivery into the same mailbox or API as your other jurisdictions.
The annual filing that confirms the information Companies House holds about the company is correct, replacing the annual return since 2016. It carries the statement of capital, the shareholder list for private companies and the SIC codes.