Companies House company, PSC and filing-history data

Source universe · Acquisition routes

Empirical intelligence · Official API · Public

Published by Companies House. Jurisdiction: UK.

What it covers

• companies
• persons with significant control
• filing history

Publication and history

Publisher-controlled statistical or public-record release; revisions and release dates must be retained.

Current register and filing history exposed by product; snapshots must record observation time.

Review cadence: Daily. Reliability: Empirical dataset.

Acquisition and rights

• Acquisition: Official API

• Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0

• Commercial reuse: Permitted with attribution

• Raw storage: Permitted

• Derived assertions: Permitted

• Public use: Attributed derived content

• Visibility: Public

Respect API authentication, rate limits and personal-data purpose boundaries; customer facts remain private.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; credited third-party material remains excluded.

Evidence for this decision

• Companies House company, PSC and filing-history data access — Access evidence, reviewed 11 September 2026.
• Companies House company, PSC and filing-history data reuse terms — Licence evidence, reviewed 11 September 2026.

Source registry: sterling-source-registry@2026-09-11.5. Last reviewed 11 September 2026.