Research and analysis

Companies House data: valuing the user benefits

Research exploring the benefits and value of Companies House data to users.

• From: Department for Business and Trade, Companies House, and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 27 September 2019

Documents

Valuing the user benefits of Companies House data: policy summary

Ref: BEIS Research Paper number: 2019/015

PDF, 1.01 MB, 31 pages

Report 1: Methodological framework

PDF, 1.05 MB, 31 pages

Report 2: Direct users

PDF, 5.62 MB, 233 pages

Report 3: Intermediaries

PDF, 1.55 MB, 57 pages

Report 4: Providers of public goods

PDF, 1.37 MB, 42 pages

Details

This research explores the benefits of Companies House (CH) data to businesses, consumers and wider society. The data is accessed billions of times a year.

Using a stated preference approach, the study:

• estimates the willingness of direct users and smaller intermediaries’ to pay for CH data
• estimates the contribution CH data makes to the largest intermediaries who incorporate CH data into their products and services
• provides a qualitative assessment of how public sector and other organisations use CH data and the impact it has on their work

Published 27 September 2019