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Companies House scrap proposals to delete company records
09 December 2016
Proposal for Companies House to delete all company records six years after a company was dissolved have been scrapped, even before the promised consultation has taken place.
The decision was put through in a written Commons answer two weeks ago from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
The proposal last August was widely criticised as the only beneficiaries of a wholesale deletion would be fraudsters who repeatedly open and close businesses in order to rook the public.
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