How Anyone Can Access Information At Companies House For Free
Tuesday, 13. October 2015
Did you know about the changes that have come about over the last few months at Companies House? It will now be easier for lenders to access your business data held by Companies House as it is now FREE for anyone to access under the new Government Corporate Transparency Rules which are part of the BIS Open Data Strategy.
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This means that anyone, including the general public, can access over 170 million records held by Companies House including such information as Registered Office, Current & Resigned Officers, Mortgage Charge Data, Previous Names Data, Insolvency Data, Document Images, Accounting Information and much more.
And in time more will be added. The new initiative also includes free access to developers who may wish to access information held at Companies House as part of a computerised assessment program.
Some may argue that little has changed as it only cost a quid to get your hands on any of this information in the past and it hasn’t exactly been widely publicised that the information is now free but more worrying is the path this is taking us.
How much more information will become available not only those who wish to use it for legitimate reasons but to those who wish to use it for less than legal reasons or for targeting. Worrying times in my opinion. By Graham Hill
