Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 120979

Companies House: Cybercrime

Tabled: 16 March 2026
Answered: 19 March 2026
Named Day

Question

Gareth Davies

ConservativeGrantham and Bourne

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many unauthorised changes to company records were (a) attempted and (b) successfully registered before the WebFiling service was closed on 13 March 2026.

Answer

Blair McDougall
Companies House is investigating this from both a technical and customer perspective. Following the initial report, ongoing investigations have found no subsequent confirmed cases of personal data having been (a) accessed without permission as a result of...

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