Person must provide ID to register a company with companies house.

Rejected 9 signatures

What the petition asks

At the current time by companies house own admission they take a person data on face value and no checks are carried out as to an individual registering a company. This allows for individuals to open business's using fraudulent information, address to open fraudulent business's

The government to pass a law that requires companies house to check the registration of business's to ensure that the business registered is a legitimate individual and business stop individuals from fraudulently using address's, peoples data to register companies.

Why it was rejected

The UK Government or Parliament was already taking the action it asked for.

There is already legislation going through the Commons (the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill) that would introduce compulsory identify verification for company directors and some shareholders.

You can follow progress of this Bill here: https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3339

And you can read a House of Commons Library briefing on this Bill here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9625/

Timeline

5 Jan 2023	Petition opened for signatures
10 Jan 2023	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 9

Status Rejected

Rejected 10 Jan 2023

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