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Companies House: Half Of Directors And PSCs Still Unverified

ended 01. August 2026

Companies House's own compliance data, published on 30 July 2026, shows that only 49.68% of director, PSC and LLP-member appointments, 7,364,599 of those in scope, had verified their identity by 30 June 2026. The duty comes from the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, and the single transition window it created opened on 18 November 2025 and closes on 18 November 2026, so well under four months remain to clear a register that is still barely half done.

The catch is that there is no single deadline day to watch. Each company's own cut-off sits inside that window, tied to its confirmation-statement date, so a director or PSC can run out of road with no national countdown to warn them. Verification is climbing fast, from 6.16% at 31 December 2025 to 28.12% at 31 March 2026 and now 49.68%, but the two groups the law targets are moving at different speeds: 55.33% of directors have verified against just 41.86% of individual people with significant control (PSCs).

Miss your own date and the company cannot file its confirmation statement, and not filing one at all is a criminal offence, on top of separate identity duties that fall on each officer individually. The person really exposed is the director or PSC of a small, owner-run company who has never had to prove who they are to Companies House before and has nobody tracking the date their own window closes.

  1. With barely half of directors, PSCs and LLP members verified and under four months left in the transition window, is Companies House's rollout on track, or is it heading for a compliance cliff-edge this autumn?
  2. Individual PSCs are verifying more slowly than directors, at 41.86% against 55.33%: is that gap a fair reflection of who understands the new duty, or a sign that PSCs are being missed by the reminders reaching directors?
  3. What should directors and PSCs be doing right now to find their own confirmation-statement deadline and verify before it, rather than discovering it the moment they cannot file? Do you have a client who has not yet verified, or who has been caught out by this deadline? If so, please give as much colour and detail as possible.

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Harvey Dhillon
Founder & CEO at Zmartly
Companies House's own figures put verification at 49.68 per cent, with under four months left in the transition window to close a register still barely half done. That is real progress from 6.16 per cent in December, but half done with four months left is a cliff-edge. The PSC lag, 41.86 per cent against 55.33 per cent for directors, is not really about who understands the duty better. Directors get chased by their own confirmation statement. PSCs who are not also directors get chased by nothing: their deadline is the first 14 days of their own birth month, with no company paperwork to trigger it. We have no client caught out yet. Check now: directors verify with the next confirmation statement, other PSCs track their birth month and verify inside those 14 days. Do not wait for a letter.
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Debbie Porter
Managing Director at Destination Digital Marketing
It would help if Companies House communications were more specific and more tailored. I have received the notification half a dozen times, which has led to me to login half a dozen times to find each time that I already completed the task. Blasting out generic repeated messages, rather than targeted specific messages will have people hitting delete, because the messages don't really feel any different to the barrage of other HMRC 'helpful content' emails. Companies House knows exactly what each Director's personal deadline is, and they know how to contact them, so tailoring their communications would be much more helpful in helping directors to stay compliant.