Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the average number of persons of significant control in a UK company.

Companies House publishes the requested figures as part of its official statistics, these can be found at the link below. The relevant table is A7.

Companies_Register_Activities_2021-22.ods (live.com)

The average number of persons of significant control for UK companies in 2021-2022 was 1.28.

The average number of shareholders for UK companies in 2021-2022 was 2.15.

The average number of directors for UK companies in 2021-2022 was 1.59.