United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 17543
Companies: Registration
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9 July 2026
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14 July 2026 · Answer
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14 July 2026
Summary
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.
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9 July 2026
Written question
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.
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14 July 2026
Answer
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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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-07-09/17543
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1926304
- uk · wq-1926304 · source updated 14 July 2026