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The database of beneficial owners of companies incorporated in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The beneficial ownership registry of the United Kingdom.
A person with significant control (PSC) is someone who owns or controls your company. They’re sometimes called ‘beneficial owners’.
This includes major shareholders (25%+) in any UK company, identified by name, date of birth and nationality. Companies House may not enforce the correct filing of PSC reports, so errors in the data must be assumed.
This dataset contains entities from a larger database that is used to enrich the data in OpenSanctions with additional details and connections. We only include entities from the source where there is a relevant connection to the entities in the main OpenSanctions database (e.g. to a sanctions target or a politician).
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| Publisher: | UK Companies House (CoH) · United Kingdom Companies House is the UK body responsible for managing the incorporation of limited companies, and the maintenance of their records. | ||||||
| Collections: | in OpenSanctions Default | ||||||
| Information: | www.gov.uk | ||||||
| Coverage: | added · frequency: weekly | ||||||
| Last processed: | 2026-08-11 13:09:18 · v. 20260811130918-dar | ||||||
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You can query the data in this dataset via these API endpoints:
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint: | |
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint: | |
| Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine: |
OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Businesses must acquire a data license to use the dataset.