The last two years has seen Companies House advance dramatically in its steps towards digitalisation with the organisation seeing a 91.4% digital take up in the last financial year compared to 88.4% in 2019-20.

Regarding paper documents Companies House accepted 1m which is down 400,000 from last year’s reported 1.4m. It also accepted 12.3m transactions which is a small increase on last year’s 12.3m.

As an emergency response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Companies House developed and introduced a new filing service which allowed 400 different documents to uploaded digitally instead of posting a physical document. Since 1 June 2020, there had been 145,000 submissions through the ‘upload a document’ service including critical insolvency related filings which were entirely paper based.

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