UK Companies House Disqualified Directors
Individuals which have been disqualified from holding the post of a company director in the United Kingdom following a court decision.
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UK company directors can be banned (‘disqualified’) from being a company director if they don’t meet your legal responsibilities.
‘Unfit conduct’ includes:
- allowing a company to continue trading when it can’t pay its debts
- not keeping proper company accounting records
- not sending accounts and returns to Companies House
- not paying tax owed by the company
- using company money or assets for personal benefit
This is usually handled by the Insolvency Service, but:
Apart from The Insolvency Service, other bodies can apply to have you disqualified under certain circumstances, eg:
- Companies House
- the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
- the courts
- a company insolvency practitioner
Directors can be disqualified for up to 15 years.
Data overview
| Entity count: | 989 target entities · 3,029 searchable entities · 5,213 total | ||||||
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| Publisher: | The Insolvency Service (United Kingdom) Tthe Insolvency Service is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. It is responsible for bankruptcies, but also the handling of financial wrong-doing. | ||||||
| Information: | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk | ||||||
| Source data: | api.companieshouse.gov.uk (json) | ||||||
| Collections: | in Warrants and Criminal Entities · Due Diligence List | ||||||
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entities.ftm.json | FollowTheMoney entities | 3 MB | |
names.txt | Target names text file | 46 kB | |
targets.nested.json | Targets as nested JSON | 3 MB | |
targets.simple.csv | Targets as simplified CSV | 403 kB |
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