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Compliance 24 March 2026

One Director, Two Bans: Surrey Case Highlights Gap in Data on Repeat Disqualifications

A Surrey business adviser's second director disqualification for tax debts totalling £120,000 exposes the challenge of tracking repeat offenders across the UK's 526,873 registered company officers.

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Insolvency 23 March 2026

UK borrowing costs hit 16-year high: Which sectors face insolvency surge as rates bite?

Government borrowing costs have reached their highest level since 2008, raising concerns about a potential wave of company failures as businesses face increased financing pressures.

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Compliance 23 March 2026

389 UK Companies Named for Minimum Wage Violations: Which Sectors Are the Worst Offenders?

HMRC has named 389 employers for underpaying around 60,000 workers by over £7.3 million. Analysis of Companies House data reveals patterns across sectors, with businesses facing £12.6 million in penal

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Data 22 March 2026

Companies House breach exposes email addresses of 5.6 million UK companies

A security vulnerability in Companies House's WebFiling service has potentially exposed the registered email addresses of all 5,645,362 UK companies, with real estate and consultancy sectors most affe

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Insolvency 10 March 2026

23,938 UK companies went insolvent in 2025. We dug into the filings.

The 2025 insolvency numbers are in - similar to 2024 but still at levels last seen during the 2008-09 recession. Construction and hospitality lead the sector breakdown.

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Investigation 6 March 2026

Thames Water's corporate maze: 15 subsidiaries, £18.3bn in debt, and a paper trail worth reading

We mapped every entity in the Kemble Water Holdings structure using Companies House filings.

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Regulation 1 March 2026

Companies House identity verification is live. Millions of directors still need to verify.

The ECCT Act's biggest reform launched on 18 November 2025. An estimated 6-7 million individuals need to verify by mid-November 2026.

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Data 24 February 2026

HMRC winding-up petitions are surging. Compulsory liquidations hit a 13-year high.

Tax debts are catching up. Compulsory liquidations in 2025 reached 3,730 - the highest annual figure since 2012, driven largely by HMRC enforcement.

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Investigation 17 February 2026

Three directors, forty-seven companies, one registered address in Doncaster

A routine search flagged a network that keeps growing.

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Data 10 February 2026

UK incorporations dipped in Q4 2025 but the effective register is still nearly 4.9 million companies.

Q4 2025 saw 184,888 new incorporations across the UK - down 14% on the previous quarter but up 2% year-on-year. The story is more nuanced than the headline.

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Regulation 3 February 2026

We checked every PSC filing in the UK. One in five has errors or missing data.

The Persons of Significant Control register was meant to end hidden ownership. Nearly ten years on, we ran the numbers.

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