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Simon Heape's avatar

Do any branches of government ever actively engage with you on this type of issue that you so excellently expose or do they choose to ignore treating you as some kind of irritant?

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JAS's avatar

Great, but this detail is simply overwhelmed by the serious breaches of the Companies Act by public figures making multiple entries using different versions of their names.

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Sian Dickens's avatar

Even after 14 years haemorrhaging probity in government even at highest level but Companies House almost seems mired in the days of JSCAs, chaps doing deals in coffee houses, safe as the City & the Bank of England & nothing's more trustworthy than a chap's word of honour filling in forms.

They got that right - nothing, absolutely beggar all is worth infinitely more than much of the data they are publishing.

When the Blessed Margaret allowed the Companies House brand to became an executive agency of the Department of Trade and Industry, and operate as a trading fund, funding itself from the fees they charged companies to get on the register - the more companies they registered the more lolly could flow.

Even the CA 2006 seemed more focussed on government department shuffling, post re-naming/grading and putting registers on line.

Even before the CA 2006 was fully operational in 2009, Mandelson knew that nearly 4,000 CH registered directors were on international watchlists of suspected fraudsters, money launderers, terror financiers & corrupt officials AND that >1,500 disqualified company directors were being allowed to run other UK companies because CH did not even check names against its own register of disqualified persons - chuffin' unbelievable.

Might have been OK in Grandpa Morrison's day but in C21st, data accessible on-line, published by an HMG agency under HMG's aegis leant criminals & OCGs credibility and brought them so many unsuspecting 'civilian' victims who would not suspect that ministers of probity would allow it on their watch - but plenty of varying hue followed in Mandelson's tracks.

I am so old did 'trad' Maths to O-level & then in LVI 'new' Maths at A's. I am bilingual in imperial & decimal - often in the same sentence, use log tables, slide rule & calculators

And still always do quick mental OoM checks on calcs I haven't done myself - why?

Because more than half a century since I first got my hands on a Casio scientific calculator I recall

'Boll*cks in, boll*cks out'

Next month the pro-active action requirements imposed on CH by the ECCCTA 2023 will have been in force for a year - knowing the exec wot wrote 'em anyone holding their breath?

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