The Companies House is responsible for incorporating companies, registering company information, and ensuring compliance with disclosure requirements. It provides basic company information to customers through various channels, with the goal of reducing burdens and making it easier for customers to access data. The Companies House aims to achieve this through initiatives like digital by default services, law reform, and redesigning services to allow easier automatic access to company data.

2. providing company
information that
customers value
“
”

3. About us

4. About us

5. Functions
Registrar’s Statutory functions
incorporating companies and registering changes to details
dissolving companies and striking off defunct companies
ensuring compliance with statutory disclosure requirements
making information available for public inspection and use
Delegated Authority: Secretary of State functions
names issues – including “Same As” and sensitive words
accounting date extensions
the information exchange …

9. Supply of data

11. Basiccompanydetails*
Disqualifieddirectors
Transactionhistory
Chargesindex
InsolvencyDetails
Download Product & URI
XML Gateway
CH APP
CHD/Extranet/CHIC
*
Company name and number
Registered Office address
Incorporation date
Company status
Company type
Country of origin
SIC code (business classification)
Accounts made up and due dates
Annual return made up and due dates
Previous names
Number of charges
Date of last members list
Overseas information (if applicable)
WebCHeck
FreeInformation

12. Access to data

13. Reducing Burdens - making life easier for
Customers
• Law reform – Companies Act 2006
• Red Tape Challenge
• Digital by Default
• Redesigning Services and Joining Up
• Easier and Automatic access to data

14. Reducing Burdens - making life easier for
Customers
• Law reform – Companies Act 2006
– Increased Flexibility
– Burden reduction
– Think small first
– Directors’ privacy
• Red Tape Challenge
– All types of regulation
– Wide stakeholder consultation
– Names
– Annual filings

15. Reducing Burdens - making life easier for
Customers
• Digital by default
– Speed
– Accuracy
– Quality
– Simplicity
– Efficiency
– Fees

16. digital by default

18. Efficiency: cost vs. register size

19. Efficiency: Cost per company

20. Reducing Burdens - making life easier for
Customers
• Redesigning Services – Joining Up
– Tax Office
• Company Start Up
• Accounts Filing
• Sharing Data – “Tell us Once”
– Patents Office
– www.GOV.uk – “One Stop Shop”
• Redesigning Services – Forms to data
– “my account” concept
– Best practice design

26. Reducing Burdens - making life easier for
Customers
• Easier and Automatic Access to data
– XML gateway
– URI
– App
– Accounts data in iXBRL
– Open data / free data

27. Output timeline

28. Mobile app

30. providing company
information that
customers value
“
”