New in Filing HQ: statutory registers, compiled live from your records

Every UK limited company is legally required to keep a set of statutory registers under the Companies Act 2006 — and, importantly, these internal records (not the public Companies House view) are the legally authoritative record of who owns and controls your company. Keeping them accurate and current has always been one of the quieter compliance chores founders forget about.

Not any more. Filing HQ now compiles your statutory registers automatically, live from your current officer and shareholding records. There's nothing to set up and nothing to maintain by hand — open the Statutory registers page and every register is already populated.

What's included

The Statutory registers page brings the registers most private companies need into one place, each labelled with the Companies Act 2006 section it satisfies:

• Register of members (s. 113) — names and addresses of every member, the shares they hold, and the date they became a member.
• Register of directors (s. 162) — every director, current and former, with service address, date of birth, nationality, and appointment dates.
• Directors' residential addresses (s. 165) — the confidential register of directors' usual residential addresses, clearly flagged as private and not available for public inspection.
• Register of PSCs (s. 790M) — people with significant control, with names, addresses, and the nature of their control as defined in Schedule 1A.

Private limited companies are not required to appoint a company secretary (s. 270), so the register of secretaries (s. 275) isn't shown by default — if your company has one, just get in touch and we'll switch it on.

Why it matters

Since 30 June 2016 (Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015), private UK companies may elect to keep their statutory information on the central Companies House register instead of in their own statutory books. Filing HQ maintains both sides: the register you see here is always populated, and any submission we make to Companies House keeps both records in sync — so there's no drift between your internal books and the public record.

That means when an investor, lender, or acquirer asks for your statutory registers during due diligence, they're ready — accurate, current, and properly sourced.

Want to understand the detail?

If you want the full picture of what each register must contain, how the central-register election works, and what goes wrong when registers fall out of date, read our complete guide: Statutory registers for UK limited companies: what every founder must maintain.