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20 stories · Last updated: 1 Jun 2026, 7:18am
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Verifying your identity for Companies House
You need to prove who you are to set up, run, own or control a company in the UK.
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Guidance: Food packaging businesses exempt from a gangmaster’s licence
Businesses that do not need a gangmaster’s licence when providing a food packaging service.
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Official Statistics: DBT inward investment results 2025 to 2026
Department for Business and Trade (DBT) statistics showing results for inward investment projects which landed in the UK in the 2025 to 2026 financial year.
gov.uk · DBT
Transparency data: Help to Grow: Management course enrolments and participant completions
Statistics on the uptake of the Help to Grow: Management programme, course enrolments and participant completions.
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Using an Authorised Corporate Service Provider (ACSP) to verify your identity
How to find an ACSP, what an ACSP needs to verify your identity for Companies House, and what happens after an ACSP verifies your identity.
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Official Statistics: Trade and investment factsheets: latest update
The most up to date snapshot of the UK’s trade and investment positions with trading partners overseas.
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Accredited official statistics: Building materials and components statistics: May 2026
Provides information on selected building materials and contains monthly data on price indices, bricks, cement and concrete blocks; and quarterly data on sand and gravel, slate, concrete roofing tile…
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Official Statistics: UK trade in numbers
A snapshot of the UK’s latest trade and investment position, summarising statistics produced by ONS, DBT, and UNCTAD.
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Official Statistics: Trade and investment core statistics book
A monthly snapshot of the UK’s trade and investment position, summarising trade statistics produced by ONS, HMRC, DBT and others.
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Impact assessment: Companies House: equality impact assessment for identity verification
We assess the impact of the identity verification service and the Registrar's verification routes on directors, people with significant control (PSCs), and equivalent officers for other entities in s…
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Official Statistics: Trade union statistics 2025
Information on trade union membership among employees in the UK estimated from the Labour Force Survey over the period 1995 to 2025.
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Policy paper: Summary of stakeholder roundtables on unfair dismissal changes
Overview of feedback from stakeholders on the impacts of changes to unfair dismissal law under the Employment Rights Act 2025.
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Guidance: Growth Gateway: Resilient together, ASEAN’s path forward for sustainable and competitive global value chains
A practical roadmap for ASEAN to build resilient, sustainable and competitive global value chains through focused collaboration, greener growth and faster delivery.
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Guidance: Growth Gateway: Critical minerals in South Africa – Primer on mining policies and regulatory framework
A high-level guide to South Africa’s mining policy and regulation that sets out the core laws and institutions, licensing and environmental requirements, and policy choices to attract investment in c…
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Guidance: Growth Gateway: Critical minerals in South Africa – Primer on the mining sector
A 2-part accessible primer on South Africa’s mining sector that explains its economic importance, the end-to-end mine lifecycle and why responsible closure matters.
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Guidance: Growth Gateway: Critical minerals in South Africa – Commodity primers
Practical primers on bulk minerals and base metals, precious metals and specialty metals in South Africa, that sets out market context, supply dynamics and investment signals.
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Guidance: Growth Gateway: ASEAN Economic Strategic Plan Review on Impact Realisation (ASPIRE)
A review of ASEAN’s last decade of economic integration and a practical roadmap for its next ten years, including a plan on how to deepen UK-ASEAN partnership.
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Call for input on goods for cost of living tariff suspensions
We are seeking views on the tariff suspensions of agricultural goods, fertilisers, and kerosene to help mitigate the consumer impact of the conflict in the Middle East.
gov.uk · DBT
Registrar's rules
Rules outlining the form, manner of delivery and method of authentication for documents delivered to Companies House in electronic or paper format.
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