Foreign Companies: Complaints
(asked on 12th December 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
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.
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.