Company House API - People Result

Hi,

With the companies house public REST API, is it possible to return the results of all people associated to a specific company using the CRN?

If by “CRN” you mean “company registration number” AKA “Company number” then the answer is either “yes” or “no”, depending on what you mean by “all people associated to a specific company”.

The Companies House API allows you to query the following (which is all that Companies House actually register) for a given company:

  • Company Officers (e.g. Directors, Secretaries, Nominees etc.) via the Officers endpoint
  • PSCs (e.g. people and other entities with “significant control or influence” such as major shareholders, those voting rights, the power to appoint or remove directors etc. - list here ) via the PSC endpoints

You may (or may not) also be able to find more complete information on shareholders by examining the company’s filings (e.g. incorporation statement, annual return for companies which are old enough that they filed these).

Companies House does not record lists of employees, nor even the entire senior management team, so if that is what you were looking for then you won’t find it here.

Additionally, a separate list of disqualified officers is also available.

To experiment with what you can get, try looking up companies (or indeed officers) using the Companies House search website.

Good luck.