Important update – The new Companies House ‘Identity Verification Process’ will launch from 18 November 2025 making it a legal requirement for new and existing Company Directors and Persons with Significant Control (PSCs) to verify their identity over the next 12 month period, as and when their company’s annual Confirmation Statement is due for filing.

The new verification process will help deter those wishing to use companies for illegal purposes.  Anyone setting up, running, owning or controlling a company in the UK will need to verify their identity over the next 12 months in order to prove they are who they claim to be.

We will be writing to clients over the next 12 months before it is time for us to file their company’s annual Confirmation Statement with full details of how to apply to Companies House for their unique filing code.

Once you have received an email from us, you should attend to it without delay. It is also extremely important that you forward the unique filing code to us as soon as it has been received from Companies House as we are unable to file the company’s Confirmation Statement without it and this may incur unnecessary late filing penalties.

We thank you for your co-operation with this.