Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 17543

Companies: Registration

Tabled: 9 July 2026
Answered: 14 July 2026
Named Day

Question

Steff Aquarone

Liberal DemocratNorth Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many companies registered in England and Wales have declared a legal entity registered abroad as a person with significant control.

Answer

Blair McDougall
In limited cases, a foreign company can be a Relevant Legal Entity (RLE) and can be legitimately recorded as a UK company's Person with Significant Control (PSC).We identified 24,450 unique, non-dissolved companies on the England and Wales register that h...

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