The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act has introduced measures to prevent abuse of personal information held on the Companies House register.
One of the aims is to balance the need for corporate transparency with the understanding that personal information should only be published when it’s necessary and proportionate to do so.
Suppression of personal information
From 27 January 2025, individuals can apply to suppress the following information from historical documents:
- registered office address where it’s their home address
From 21 July 2025, individuals can apply to suppress the following information from historical documents:
- residential addresses in most instances when shown elsewhere on the register
- day of birth for documents registered before 10 October 2015 (only the month and year of birth have been publicly displayed since 10 October 2015)
- signatures
- business occupation
Protection of personal information because of risk of harm
We intend to introduce further measures allowing individuals at personal risk of physical harm or violence as a result of their personal information being on the Companies House public register (for example, domestic abuse survivors) to apply to have more of their information protected from public view.
We’ll let you know when these measures will come into force.