Guidance and regulation

For company directors, LLP members or people with significant control (PSCs) who are at serious risk and want to protect their personal information from the public.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 1 March 2023

This guidance explains what happens when a private company opts to keep certain statutory register information on the public register.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 31 December 2020

How to remove your home address from the public register if you’ve used it as a service address for correspondence, or a shareholder's address. This also applies to LLPs and LLP members.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 5 May 2022

Model articles of association for companies limited by guarantee that were incorporated on or after 28 April 2013.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 18 September 2018

Registration and filing obligations of an overseas company that opens an establishment in the UK.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 4 March 2024

Information about changes that UK companies need to file with Companies House and the rules and requirements on how to submit them.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 11 May 2023

A list of all the fees Companies House charges, and how we determine these fees.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 30 November 2023

The Bounce Back loan scheme was introduced to support businesses during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The guide explains why that loan must be repaid.

• From: The Insolvency Service
• Updated: 31 March 2022

This page provides links to guidance produced by, or relating to, the Insolvency Service

• From: The Insolvency Service
• Updated: 21 December 2021

How to treat excise goods placed in a tax warehouse, supplied from a tax warehouse or removed from a tax warehouse for VAT purposes.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 31 December 2020

The law states you must keep a record of any money you borrow from, or pay into, your company. Our fact sheet tells you more about director's loan accounts.

• From: The Insolvency Service
• Updated: 31 March 2022

How a limited liability partnership (LLP) can be removed from and restored to the Companies House register.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 4 March 2024

How to access and manage your Companies House credit account using our online eBilling service.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 19 June 2019

How to send information to Companies House through our extensible markup language (XML) schemas, by purchasing software or developing your own.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 4 July 2023

How to register a limited partnership.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 27 July 2017

How to apply for breathing space to consider a rescue plan for your company, under measures to support companies and other types of business in financial difficulty.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 26 June 2020

Overview of insolvency and liquidation proceedings and the documents you must send to Companies House.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 10 March 2022

Technical specifications for developing software to send information to Companies House digitally.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 16 April 2024

Use our interactive online learning tool to find out how to set up and register flat management companies, RTM companies and commonhold associations.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 15 March 2019

We have a service for Welsh companies and limited liability partnerships (LLPs) who prefer to use the Welsh language.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 22 July 2020