Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 73408

Companies: Registration

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 18 September 2025
Named Day

Question

Sureena Brackenridge

LabourWolverhampton North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure that new business identity verification rules prevent the creation of businesses at people's addresses without their consent.

Answer

Blair McDougall
The purpose of identity verification is to understand who is setting up, running, owning and controlling companies in the UK.Identity verification will enhance the wider powers already available to query or reject inaccurate or suspicious information and ...

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