When you need to verify your identity for Companies House
When you need to verify depends on your role, and when you started that role.
Directors
You will need to provide your Companies House personal code as part of your company’s next confirmation statement from 18 November 2025.
If you are a director of more than one company, you will need to do this for each company.
If you’re registering a new company, you’ll be asked to provide the Companies House personal code for each director as part of the registration filing.
People with significant control (PSCs)
PSCs must verify their identity and provide their Companies House personal code. The period for doing this depends on your situation.
If you’re both a director and a PSC of the same company
You’ll need to provide your personal code separately for each role.
As a director, you must provide the code in the company’s confirmation statement.
As a PSC, you must provide it using a separate service within 14 days of your company’s confirmation statement date. This service will be available when the requirement comes into force on 18 November 2025.
If you’re a PSC but not a director of the same company
You must provide your personal code within the first 14 days of your birth month. For example, if your date of birth is 22 January, your 14 day period will begin on 1 January.
If you become a PSC after 18 November 2025
You must provide your personal code within 14 days of being added to the Companies House register.
Authorised Corporate Service Providers (ACSPs)
These are also known as Companies House authorised agents, and usually have roles such as accountants, solicitors or company formation agents.
You need to verify your identity if you want to apply to register as a Companies House authorised agent.
You can verify your clients’ identities if you are registered as an authorised agent. In the future, businesses will also need to register as an authorised agent to be able to file on behalf of clients.
Other roles
We’ll introduce identity verification at a later date for:
- people who file at Companies House
- limited partnerships
- corporate directors of companies
- corporate members of limited liability partnerships (LLPs)
- officers of corporate PSCs
Updates to this page
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Identity verification will be a mandatory requirement from 18 November 2025.
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