CLEARWATER, Fla. — Sept. 3, 2026 — ICAEW Insights reports that Companies House is emailing directors and persons of significant control who still have not finished identity checks on the UK register.
“Companies House will be reaching out to unverified directors and persons of significant control to improve ID verification compliance.”
— ICAEW Insights, 27 August 2026
The same note says non-compliance is “a particular issue with PSCs,” and tells accountants to pass the letters on and check that the register still matches the people who actually run the company.
What that check is
This is a government identity check on people named at Companies House. Directors and persons of significant control who have not verified are being chased. ICAEW says a PSC verifies once; a director who is also a PSC still needs the personal code that belongs to each role.
AI Verified did not write the Companies House policy and does not sell a UK filing product. The newsroom point is narrower: a state register asking a named person to prove who they are is not the same object as a public business file an answer engine can open.
What it is not
It is not a ChatGPT ranking package. It is not a review score. It is not a paid “best of” slot. It does not put a local contractor into Wikidata.
When someone in the UK asks an answer engine for a firm, the model still reads the website, the map listing, and whatever else it can fetch. A director who finished Companies House ID has done one real thing. They have not automatically published a stable page the model can cite for the trading name, the site the owner controls, and the phone that belongs to that firm.
A public identity file is that second object. Gold is that file after the owner proves the website is theirs and, when they have them, the official numbers. It does not replace Companies House. It does not claim to be Companies House.
Read the source: Companies House cracks down on ID non-compliance (ICAEW Insights, 27 August 2026).