Companies House fees
Updated 28 February 2025
We’ll publish any changes to our fees or any new fees in this guidance.
These registration fees do not apply to documents delivered under the Companies Act 1985 or the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986. Any document delivered under these acts will be free of charge.
We charge a statutory filing fee for:
- company incorporation and registration
- limited liability partnership (LLP) incorporation and registration fees
- overseas company incorporation and registration fees
- community interest company (CIC) and ‘other’ incorporation types
- limited partnership (LP) incorporation fees
- our extractives filing service
For our services, we also charge:
- Find and update company information fees
- contact centre search fees
- XML gateway search fees
- bulk product fees
Some of our fees are set by regulations and confirmed by parliament. Some fees are administratively set in our fees determination.
1. Company incorporation and registration fees
Company incorporation and registration | Online | Software | Paper |
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Incorporation | £50 | £50 | £71 |
Same day incorporation | £78 | ||
Change of name | £20 | £20 | £30 |
Same day change of name | £83 | £83 | |
Re-registration | £71 | ||
Confirmation statement fee (with your first statement in the 12 month payment period) | £34 | £34 | £62 |
Voluntary strike off | £33 | £44 | |
Registration of a charge | £15 | £15 | £24 |
Reduction of capital by solvency statement | £33 | ||
Same day reduction of capital by solvency statement (upload service only) | £136 | ||
Reduction of capital by court order | £33 | ||
Administrative restoration | £468 |
Application to make an address unavailable for public inspection | Paper |
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By an individual | £30 |
By the company: for any list of members in hard copy form (not a long list) | £30 |
By the company: for any list of members filed digitally (not a long list) | £30 |
By the company: for a long list of members delivered on CD-ROM or DVD-ROM | £30 |
By the company: for a long list of members in hard copy form | £30 |
By a person who registers a charge | £30 |
Fee charged for each document suppressed.
2. Limited liability partnership (LLP) incorporation and registration fees
Limited liability partnership (LLP) | Online | Software | Paper |
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Incorporation of an LLP | £50 | £71 | |
Same day incorporation of an LLP | £78 | ||
LLP confirmation statement fee (with your first statement in the 12 month payment period) | £34 | £34 | £62 |
LLP change of name | £20 | £30 | |
Same day LLP change of name | £83 | ||
LLP voluntary strike off | £33 | £44 | |
Registration of a charge by an LLP | £15 | £15 | £24 |
Administrative restoration of an LLP | £468 |
Application to make an address unavailable for public inspection | Paper |
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By an individual LLP member | £30 |
By a person who registers a charge | £30 |
Fee charged for each document suppressed.
3. Overseas company incorporation and registration fees
Overseas company | Online | Software | Paper |
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Registration of a UK establishment of an overseas company | £71 | ||
Change of corporate name or alternative name of an overseas company | £30 | ||
Annual document processing fee payable with the overseas company accounts | £62 |
4. Register of Overseas Entities (ROE)
ROE service | Online | Paper |
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Registration of an overseas entity | £234 | £467 |
Annual update fee | £234 | £467 |
Application for removal | £706 | £940 |
5. EEIG establishments and UK Economic Interest Groupings (UKEIGs) fees
EEIG establishments and UKEIGs | Paper |
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Registration of UK establishment of an EEIG whose official address is outside the UK under regulation 12 | £71 |
Change of name of an UKEIG | £30 |
Registration of charge | £24 |
6. UK Societas fees
UK Societas | Paper |
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Conversion of a UK Societas to a PLC | £71 |
7. Community interest company (CIC) and other incorporation types
Community interest company (CIC) | Online | Software | Paper |
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Registration of a CIC in accordance with section 36 of the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004 | £65 | £65 | £86 |
Conversion of a limited company to a CIC | £45 |
Other incorporation types | Paper |
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Registration of a company authorised to register in accordance with section 1040 of the Companies Act 2006 | £71 |
Registration of an unlimited company in accordance with section 14 of the Companies Act 2006 | £71 |
8. Application for protection
Application for protection | Fee |
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Section 243 application to make protected usual residential address information unavailable to credit reference agencies | £100 |
Section 790ZF application to make protected usual residential address information of a Person with Significant Control (PSC) unavailable to credit reference agencies | £100 |
Section 790ZG application requiring the registrar to refrain from disclosing secured PSC information | £100 |
Combined Section 790ZF and Section 790ZG application | £100 |
Section 790ZF application by a Section 243 beneficiary | £15 |
Section 243 application by a Section 790ZF beneficiary | £15 |
Application for higher protection in respect of an overseas company | £100 |
Application to make information relating to a relevant individual of an overseas entity unavailable for public inspection | £100 |
9. Limited partnership (LP) incorporation fees
Limited partnership (LP) | Paper |
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Registration of a limited partnership | £71 |
10. Private fund limited partnership (LP) incorporation fees
Private fund LP | Paper |
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Designation as a private fund LP (after the LP has been registered) | £10 |
11. Scottish qualifying partnership fees
Scottish qualifying partnerships | Paper |
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Registration of a Scottish qualifying partnership | £71 |
Annual fee for documents delivered during a confirmation statement period | £62 |
12. Scottish limited partnership fees
Scottish limited partnerships | Paper |
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Registration of a Scottish limited partnership | £71 |
Annual fee for documents delivered during a confirmation statement period | £62 |
13. Scottish partnership protection fees
Application for protection | Paper |
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Making an application under Regulations 48,49 or 50 of the Scottish Partnership PSC Regulations requiring the registrar to refrain from disclosing secure information in relation to the applicant to an individual to whom the application applies | £100 |
14. Extractives filing service fees
Extractives filing service | Online |
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Registration of a report on payments to governments | £250 |
15. Contact centre search fees
Company, limited partnership or Scottish qualifying partnership documents | Fee |
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Copy of company document (not a long list of members) by email | £3 |
Hard copy of document not on microfiche by post | £9 |
Certified copies | Fee |
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Certified copy of document by post | £15 |
Same day certified copy of document by post | £50 |
Certificates of incorporation | Fee |
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By post | £15 |
Same day certificate of Incorporation by post | £50 |
Additional certificate (for same company) by post | £10 |
Private fund limited partnerships only certificates of designation | Fee |
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By post | £15 |
Same day certificate of designation by post | £50 |
Additional certificate (for same company) by post | £10 |
Private fund limited partnerships only combined certificate of registration and designation | Fee |
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By post | £15 |
Same day certificate of designation by post | £50 |
Additional certificate (for same company) by post | £10 |
Scottish qualifying partnership | Fee |
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For a copy in hard form of an original document by post | £3 |
Copy or extract of document in hard copy in respect of the Scottish Partnerships PSC Regulations delivered by post (not same day delivery) | £15 |
Copy or extract of document in hard copy in respect of the Scottish Partnerships PSC Regulations delivered by same day delivery | £50 |
Microfiche | Fee |
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DVD copy of archive microfiche (up to 31 December 2002) by post | £20 |
Shareholder lists | Fee |
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DVD containing bulk shareholders list by post | £20 |
Archive search | Fee |
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By post or telephone | £20 |
16. Companies House register fees
You can search the Companies House register for free.
We charge a fee for the following products.
Companies House register | Fee |
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For a missing image to be made available on the filing history of a company | £3 |
Certified copies | Fee |
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Certified copy of document (up to 10 pages) by post | £15 |
Same day certified copy of document by post | £50 |
Certificates of incorporation | Fee |
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By post | £15 |
Same day certificate of Incorporation by post | £50 |
Additional certificate (for same company) by post | £10 |
Private fund limited partnerships only certificates of designation | Fee |
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By post | £15 |
Same day certificate of designation by post | £50 |
Additional certificate (for same company) by post | £10 |
Private fund limited partnerships only combined certificate of registration and designation | Fee |
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By post | £15 |
Same day certificate of designation by post | £50 |
Additional certificate (for same company) by post | £10 |
17. Extensible markup language (XML) gateway search fees
This subscription service allows third-party software to request and receive company information as data and image downloads.
Sign on | Fee |
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Monthly subscription (for each account) | £4.70 |
You can check the availability of a company name and get basic company information for free. We charge a fee for the following products.
Full search fees apply, but 15% is taken off the total monthly invoice value.
Data charges | Fee |
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Personal appointments | £1 |
Document images | Fee |
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Download per document | £1 |