How is the percentile calculated in the persons-with-significant-control query

When we run the persons-with-significant-control query for the company with the following registration number: 03653277

It provides us with the following output:

{
“extract”: {
“name”: “NPOWER LIMITED”,
“officers”: [
{
“fullName”: “TITTERTON, David George”,
“title”: “director”,
“dateOfBirth”: {
“day”: “No day available”,
“month”: “2”,
“year”: “1960”
}
},
{
“fullName”: “STACEY, Simon Nicholas”,
“title”: “director”,
“dateOfBirth”: {
“day”: “No day available”,
“month”: “7”,
“year”: “1965”
}
},
{
“fullName”: “SHARMAN, Peter Russell”,
“title”: “director”,
“dateOfBirth”: {
“day”: “No day available”,
“month”: “11”,
“year”: “1967”
}
},
{
“fullName”: “SCAGELL, Jason Andrew”,
“title”: “director”,
“dateOfBirth”: {
“day”: “No day available”,
“month”: “10”,
“year”: “1967”
}
},
{
“fullName”: “PILGRIM, Christopher James”,
“title”: “director”,
“dateOfBirth”: {
“day”: “No day available”,
“month”: “1”,
“year”: “1964”
}
},
{
“fullName”: “EATON, Jodie”,
“title”: “director”,
“dateOfBirth”: {
“day”: “No day available”,
“month”: “5”,
“year”: “1971”
}
},
{
“fullName”: “CHAPMAN, Glenn William”,
“title”: “secretary”,
“dateOfBirth”: {
“day”: “No day available”,
“month”: “No month available”,
“year”: “No year available”
}
}
],
“postCode”: “SN5 6PB”,
“personsWithSignificantControl”: [
{
“name”: “Npower Group Plc”,
“identification”: {
“registrationNumber”: “08241182”,
“legalAuthority”: “Companies Act 2006”,
“legalForm”: “Public Limited Company”,
“placeRegistered”: “Companies House”,
“countryRegistered”: “England & Wales”
},
“naturesOfControl”: [
“voting-rights-75-to-100-percent”,
“ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent”
],
“notifiedOn”: “2016-04-06”,
“address”: {
“premises”: “Windmill Hill Business Park”,
“addressLine1”: “Whitehill Way”,
“country”: “England”,
“postalCode”: “SN5 6PB”,
“region”: “Wiltshire”,
“locality”: “Swindon”
}
},
{
“name”: “Npower Group Limited”,
“identification”: {
“registrationNumber”: “08241182”,
“legalAuthority”: “Companies Act 2006”,
“legalForm”: “Private Limited Company”,
“placeRegistered”: “Companies House”,
“countryRegistered”: “United Kingdom”
},
“naturesOfControl”: [
“voting-rights-75-to-100-percent”,
“ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent”
],
“notifiedOn”: “2018-05-31”,
“address”: {
“premises”: “Windmill Hill Business Park”,
“addressLine1”: “Whitehill Way”,
“country”: “England”,
“postalCode”: “SN5 6PB”,
“region”: “Wiltshire”,
“locality”: “Swindon”
}
}
],
“registrationNumber”: “03653277”,
“companyType”: “ltd”,
“status”: “active”,
“addressLine2”: “Swindon”,
“creationDate”: “1998-10-21”,
“address”: “Windmill Hill Business Park Whitehill Way”,
“locality”: “Wiltshire”
},
“metadata”: {
“serviceVersion”: “0.26.0-SNAPSHOT”,
“method”: “company_report”,
“retrievedFromCache”: true,
“bureau”: “companieshouse”,
“lookupId”: “ce8111e3-39e1-4bc3-bf8a-4589edb74750”,
“country”: “uk”,
“klarnaCorrelationId”: “4f273b53-a95d-4201-95a7-a981082603a4”,
“lookupCorrelationId”: “1feefb53-a95d-42ae-95a7-a98108260baa”,
“cacheKey”: “03653277”,
“decisionId”: “aa273b53-a95d-4201-95a7-a981082603aa”,
“postBureauTime”: “2018-12-19T16:53:38.457Z”,
“preBureauTime”: “2018-12-19T16:53:38.289Z”
}
}

This seems to indicate that there are two entities with significant control (Npower Group Plc and Npower Group Limited where they have the following:

“voting-rights-75-to-100-percent”,
“ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent”

How is it possible that you can have two entities with 75-100% ownership or voting rights? This seems like a contradiction. How is this percentile calculated?

Thank you in advance.

This information is submitted by the user/company and not calculated by Companies House. As far as I’m aware it’s not validated by CH (or at least it wasn’t at one point, this may have changed). So, this will just mean they’ve submitted incorrect data (something that’s fairly common with PSC in my experience).

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