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UK Company Incorporations and Dissolutions
Companies incorporated and dissolved in the UK each quarter, Companies House official statistics
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Companies House official statistics, Incorporated companies in the UK. All company types; limited liability partnerships are counted separately and not included. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Compulsory strike-offs were paused in the first months of the pandemic.
Births and deaths of UK companies since 2012. When the incorporations line runs above dissolutions the register grows.
What this chart reads
- New Company Incorporations · UK (Quarterly, Companies House)as “Incorporations”behindlatest 2026-04-01
- Company Dissolutions · UK (Quarterly, Companies House)as “Dissolutions”behindlatest 2026-01-01
Sources
New Company Incorporations · UK (Quarterly, Companies House). Source: Companies House, "Incorporated companies in the UK" (quarterly official statistics on GOV.UK), table of quarterly register movements by jurisdiction, 2012 on; from the April to June 2026 release, the sum of the release's monthly figures. Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Companies House.
Company Dissolutions · UK (Quarterly, Companies House). Source: Companies House, "Incorporated companies in the UK" (quarterly official statistics on GOV.UK), table of quarterly register movements by jurisdiction, 2012 on; from the April to June 2026 release, the sum of the release's monthly figures. Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Companies House.
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