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Companies House fees

1. Company incorporation and registration fees

Company incorporation and registrationOnlineSoftwarePaper
Incorporation£50£50£71
Same day incorporation £78 
Change of name£20£20£30
Same day change of name£83£83 
Re-registration  £71
Confirmation statement fee (with your first statement in the 12 month payment period)£34£34£62
Voluntary strike off£33 £44
Registration of a charge£15£15£24
Reduction of capital by solvency statement  £33
Same day reduction of capital by solvency statement (upload service only)  £136
Reduction of capital by court order  £33
Administrative restoration  £468
Application to make an address unavailable for public inspectionPaper
By an individual£30
By the company: for any list of members in hard copy form (not a long list)£30
By the company: for any list of members filed digitally (not a long list)£30
By the company: for a long list of members delivered on CD-ROM or DVD-ROM£30
By the company: for a long list of members in hard copy form£30
By a person who registers a charge£30

Fee charged for each document suppressed.

2. Limited liability partnership (LLP) incorporation and registration fees

Limited liability partnership (LLP)OnlineSoftwarePaper
Incorporation of an LLP £50£71
Same day incorporation of an LLP £78 
LLP confirmation statement fee (with your first statement in the 12 month payment period)£34£34£62
LLP change of name £20£30
Same day LLP change of name £83 
LLP voluntary strike off£33 £44
Registration of a charge by an LLP£15£15£24
Administrative restoration of an LLP  £468
Application to make an address unavailable for public inspectionPaper
By an individual LLP member£30
By a person who registers a charge£30

Fee charged for each document suppressed.

3. Overseas company incorporation and registration fees

Overseas companyOnlineSoftwarePaper
Registration of a UK establishment of an overseas company  £71
Change of corporate name or alternative name of an overseas company  £30
Annual document processing fee payable with the overseas company accounts  £62

4. Register of Overseas Entities (ROE)

ROE serviceOnlinePaper
Registration of an overseas entity£234£467
Annual update fee£234£467
Application for removal£706£940

5. EEIG establishments and UK Economic Interest Groupings (UKEIGs) fees

EEIG establishments and UKEIGsPaper
Registration of UK establishment of an EEIG whose official address is outside the UK under regulation 12£71
Change of name of an UKEIG£30
Registration of charge£24

6. UK Societas fees

UK SocietasPaper
Conversion of a UK Societas to a PLC£71

7. Community interest company (CIC) and other incorporation types

Community interest company (CIC)OnlineSoftwarePaper
Registration of a CIC in accordance with section 36 of the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004£65£65£86
Conversion of a limited company to a CIC  £45
Other incorporation typesPaper
Registration of a company authorised to register in accordance with section 1040 of the Companies Act 2006£71
Registration of an unlimited company in accordance with section 14 of the Companies Act 2006£71

8. Application for protection

Application for protectionFee
Section 243 application to make protected usual residential address information unavailable to credit reference agencies£100
Section 790ZF application to make protected usual residential address information of a Person with Significant Control (PSC) unavailable to credit reference agencies£100
Section 790ZG application requiring the registrar to refrain from disclosing secured PSC information£100
Combined Section 790ZF and Section 790ZG application£100
Section 790ZF application by a Section 243 beneficiary£15
Section 243 application by a Section 790ZF beneficiary£15
Application for higher protection in respect of an overseas company£100
Application to make information relating to a relevant individual of an overseas entity unavailable for public inspection£100

9. Limited partnership (LP) incorporation fees

Limited partnership (LP)Paper
Registration of a limited partnership£71

10. Private fund limited partnership (LP) incorporation fees

Private fund LPPaper
Designation as a private fund LP (after the LP has been registered)£10

11. Scottish qualifying partnership fees

Scottish qualifying partnershipsPaper
Registration of a Scottish qualifying partnership£71
Annual fee for documents delivered during a confirmation statement period£62

12. Scottish limited partnership fees

Scottish limited partnershipsPaper
Registration of a Scottish limited partnership£71
Annual fee for documents delivered during a confirmation statement period£62

13. Scottish partnership protection fees

Application for protectionPaper
Making an application under Regulations 48,49 or 50 of the Scottish Partnership PSC Regulations requiring the registrar to refrain from disclosing secure information in relation to the applicant to an individual to whom the application applies£100
Making an application by a specified public authority under Regulation 42(2) of the Scottish Partnership PSC regulations for the registrar to determine whether to disclose URA information to that authority£54
Making an application by a specified public authority under Regulation 1087B (2) of the Companies Act modified by Regulation 63 of the Scottish Partnership PSC regulations for the registrar to determine whether to disclose restricted DOB information to that authority£54

14. Extractives filing service fees

Extractives filing serviceOnline
Registration of a report on payments to governments£250

15. Contact centre search fees

Screen printsFee
Alpha index, dissolved companies, former names (per page) by email£2
Company appointments by email£3
Mortgage details by email£3
Company reportsFee
Current appointments report by email£3
Mortgage statement by email£3
Company record by email£3
Document imagesFee
Copy of company document by email (after 1995)£3
Company, limited partnership or Scottish qualifying partnership documentsFee
Copy of company document (not a long list of members) by email£3
Hard copy of document not on microfiche by post£9
Certified copiesFee
Certified copy of document by post£15
Same day certified copy of document by post£50
Certificates of incorporationFee
By post£15
Same day certificate of Incorporation by post£50
Additional certificate (for same company) by post£10
Private fund limited partnerships only certificates of designationFee
By post£15
Same day certificate of designation by post£50
Additional certificate (for same company) by post£10
Private fund limited partnerships only combined certificate of registration and designationFee
By post£15
Same day certificate of designation by post£50
Additional certificate (for same company) by post£10
Scottish qualifying partnershipFee
For a copy in hard form of an original document by post£3
Copy or extract of document in hard copy in respect of the Scottish Partnerships PSC Regulations delivered by post (not same day delivery)£15
Copy or extract of document in hard copy in respect of the Scottish Partnerships PSC Regulations delivered by same day delivery£50
MicroficheFee
DVD copy of archive microfiche (up to 31 December 2002) by post£20
Shareholder listsFee
DVD containing bulk shareholders list by post£20
Archive searchFee
By post or telephone£20

16. Companies House register fees

You can search the Companies House register for free.

We charge a fee for the following products.

Companies House registerFee
For a missing image to be made available on the filing history of a company£3
Certified copiesFee
Certified copy of document (up to 10 pages) by post£15
Same day certified copy of document by post£50
Certificates of incorporationFee
By post£15
Same day certificate of Incorporation by post£50
Additional certificate (for same company) by post£10
Private fund limited partnerships only certificates of designationFee
By post£15
Same day certificate of designation by post£50
Additional certificate (for same company) by post£10
Private fund limited partnerships only combined certificate of registration and designationFee
By post£15
Same day certificate of designation by post£50
Additional certificate (for same company) by post£10

17. Extensible markup language (XML) gateway search fees

This subscription service allows third-party software to request and receive company information as data and image downloads.

Sign onFee
Monthly subscription (for each account)£4.70

You can check the availability of a company name and get basic company information for free. We charge a fee for the following products.

Full search fees apply, but 15% is taken off the total monthly invoice value.

Data chargesFee
Personal appointments£1
Document imagesFee
Download per document£1

18. Bulk product fees

Our bulk products offer third-parties company information as data and images for use in their own products, with initial database ‘snapshots’ and daily or weekly updates.

Access to information not on the public registerFee
Application by specified public authority (SPA) or credit reference agency (CRA)£54
Individual request by SPA or CRA (to access information)£5