HC Deb 22 July 2002 vol 389 cc788-9W
Linda Perham

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list the information that companies are required to provide her Department, indicating where these items are subsequently published. [69401]

Ms Hewitt

Companies registered under the Companies Act are required to deliver certain statutory information to Companies House. This includes their annual financial accounts, details of their directors and shareholders as well as other notifications of changes or events within the company. Under the provisions of the Insolvency Act, they must also deliver details of any insolvency proceedings.

All information delivered to Companies House is made available for public inspection, except in the case of the residential address of directors/secretaries who are beneficiaries of a Confidentiality Order who would be at serious risk of violence or intimidation if their address was made public.