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<p>Companies House cannot confirm how many incidences of fraudulent use of addresses
through Companies House there have been in (a) Wales and (b) the UK in each of the
last five years.</p><p> </p><p>Companies House registers a number of types of address:
companies registered office addresses, the service addresses and usual residential
addresses of directors and persons with significant control (although residential
addresses are not made publicly available), subscribers and certain shareholders addresses,
and single alternative inspection addresses for company registers.</p><p> </p><p>If
Companies House receives a complaint alleging that address information has been fraudulently
filed with it, the law provides certain administrative and court remedies. This covers
situations where information is invalid or ineffective, delivered without the authority
of the company or factually inaccurate or derived from something factually inaccurate
or forged. There is also a provision to allow Companies House to remove an address
which has been used as a company’s registered office where she is satisfied that a
company is not authorised to use that address.</p><p> </p><p>However, Companies House
cannot identify which of these are due solely to cases of fraud.</p><p> </p>
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