Companies House privacy statistics
Last updated 25 Oct 2026 · Address Erased, a service of Sidekick Accounting Ltd
Since 2025, anyone named on the Companies House register can apply to remove their home address, signature, day of birth and business occupation from documents already filed. This page brings together Companies House's own figures and anonymised statistics from scans run on Address Erased. You're welcome to quote them with a link to this page.
Applications to Companies House
By 31 March 2026, Companies House had received 15,382 applications to protect personal information and approved 9,790 of them (64%), according to its Companies House annual report and accounts 2025 to 2026.
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Applications received, by 31 March 2026 | 15,382 |
| Applications approved | 9,790 |
| Share approved | 64% |
| Applications not approved, or still being decided | 5,592 |
Companies House doesn't break down the remaining applications, so they include ones rejected and ones not yet decided. The most common reasons an SR01 is sent back are covered in our guide to completing form SR01.
What our scans find
Every scan on Address Erased reads a person's filings at every company they've been part of, back to 2003. These figures are averages across all of those scans. They never describe an individual, and they include no names, addresses or company details.
We publish these once there are at least 30 completed scans, so no figure can describe a handful of people. So far there are 0. Check back soon.
How these figures are produced
- Companies House figures are quoted as published, from the source linked above.
- Scan figures come from completed scans of a person's name on Address Erased, across all their companies.
- Only counts are kept for these statistics. Scan results themselves are deleted under our retention policy.
- Figures update hourly, and only appear once there are at least 30 scans behind them.
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