PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Foreign Companies: Complaints (12 December 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many complaints have been received on breaches of the Overseas Companies Regulations 2009 by overseas companies; and how many such complaints resulted in (a) compliance or (b) prosecution.

Asked by:
Clive Lewis (Labour)

Companies House received the following number of complaints on breaches of the Overseas Companies Regulations 2009 by overseas companies.

Year	Number of Complaints
2010 (from 1 October)	2
2011	4
2012	14
2013	36
2014	26
2015	4
2016 (to date)	11
Total	97

Two of the complaints resulted in compliance by the company and one case resulted in prosecution. In the other cases it was found that there was insufficient evidence for prosecution action.

Answered by:
Margot James (Conservative)
15 December 2016