UK Company Directors: Companies House Officers & PSCs

Answers "who are the directors of

Give it UK company numbers, Companies House URLs or plain company names. Each company comes back as one row with its current directors and secretaries, its persons with significant control (PSCs), plus company status, company type, SIC codes, incorporation date and registered office address. No Companies House API key, no login. The fields are the same on every row, so AI agents, KYC checks and due-diligence pipelines can use it as well as people.

What it returns

For every company:

• Officers: name, role (Director, Secretary, LLP Member and so on), appointed and resigned dates, month and year of birth, nationality, country of residence, correspondence address, identity verification status, and a link to the officer's other appointments. Corporate officers also get where they are registered and their registration number.
• Persons with significant control: name, kind (individual, corporate entity or legal person), natures of control (for example "Ownership of shares - 75% or more"), notified and ceased dates, nationality, residence and month and year of birth for individuals, legal form and registration number for companies. PSC statements (such as "no registrable person") and exemptions (such as a listing on a UK regulated market) are returned too, so an empty PSC list always has a reason.
• Company: number, name, status (Active, Dissolved, Liquidation...), type, incorporation and dissolution dates, registered office as one line and split into parts, SIC codes with descriptions, previous names.
• Summary columns: the first 3 current directors (topDirectors), the number of current directors (activeDirectorCount) and the current PSC names (pscNames), so one table answers the question at a glance.

The data comes from the public Companies House register website, which serves the same information as the official API without needing a key.

Use cases

• An AI agent answering "who are the directors of Monzo?" or "who controls this supplier?".
• KYC and onboarding: confirm a UK business's officers, owners and status before signing it up.
• Due diligence and M&A screening: officers, beneficial owners and SIC codes for a target list.
• B2B lead generation: the decision makers of UK companies by name, with their roles and appointment dates.
• CRM enrichment: turn a column of UK company names into numbers, statuses, addresses and directors.

How it works

1. A company number or Companies House URL is used as is. A name is searched on Companies House and matched: exact (same name ignoring case and punctuation), normalized (same once Limited, Ltd or PLC are dropped, so Monzo Bank finds MONZO BANK LIMITED) or fuzzy (the closest similar name). Each row reports matchType and matchConfidence. Ties go to an active company.
2. The company overview page gives status, type, dates, address and SIC codes.
3. The officers pages give every officer. Companies House lists 35 per page; the Actor follows the pages. Current officers come first, so with includeResigned off it stops as soon as all current officers are in.
4. The PSC page gives owners and controllers, statements and exemptions.

That is 3 requests per company (4 for a name), spaced 1 second apart by default.

Input

Field	Meaning
companies	Company numbers (00445790, SC045551, OC399026), Companies House URLs, or company names. One per line.
includeResigned	Also return resigned officers (default false).
includePsc	Return persons with significant control (default true).
maxCompanies	Stop after this many companies (default 50).
requestDelaySecs	Pause between requests (default 1, minimum 0.5: never more than 2 requests a second).
proxyConfiguration	Optional. No proxy by default.

Leave companies empty to run 5 well-known sample companies (Tesco, Monzo Bank, Rolls-Royce Holdings, BT Group, Revolut), about 20 seconds.

{
  "companies": ["00445790", "Monzo Bank", "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08804411"],
  "includeResigned": false,
  "includePsc": true
}

Output

One row per company. Fields that are not on the register are empty, never invented.

{
  "input": "Monzo Bank",
  "companyNumber": "09446231",
  "companyName": "MONZO BANK LIMITED",
  "status": "Active",
  "companyType": "Private limited Company",
  "incorporatedOn": "2015-02-18",
  "dissolvedOn": null,
  "registeredOfficeAddress": "Broadwalk House, 5 Appold Street, London, England, EC2A 2AG",
  "registeredOfficeAddressParts": {"addressLine1": "Broadwalk House", "addressLine2": "5 Appold Street", "locality": "London", "region": null, "country": "England", "postalCode": "EC2A 2AG"},
  "sicCodes": [{"code": "64191", "description": "Banks"}, {"code": "64999", "description": "Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified"}],
  "previousNames": [{"name": "FOCUS FS LIMITED", "from": "2015-02-18", "to": "2016-10-21"}],
  "topDirectors": ["BURBIDGE, Eileen", "DIAS, Valerie Michelle", "KEELEY, Rupert Graham"],
  "activeDirectorCount": 7,
  "activeOfficerCount": 8,
  "officerAppointmentsTotal": 30,
  "officers": [
    {
      "name": "BURBIDGE, Eileen",
      "surname": "BURBIDGE",
      "givenNames": "Eileen",
      "role": "Director",
      "status": "Active",
      "officerType": "individual",
      "appointedOn": "2015-04-21",
      "resignedOn": null,
      "birthMonthYear": "1971-06",
      "nationality": "British",
      "countryOfResidence": "United Kingdom",
      "correspondenceAddress": "Broadwalk House, 5 Appold Street, London, England, EC2A 2AG",
      "identityVerified": false,
      "identityVerificationDueOn": "2026-11-25",
      "appointmentsUrl": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/ssSVue1XDlQnQSitrtOoyTIe5s0/appointments"
    }
  ],
  "pscNames": ["Monzo Bank Holding Group Limited"],
  "psc": [
    {
      "name": "Monzo Bank Holding Group Limited",
      "kind": "corporate-entity",
      "status": "Active",
      "naturesOfControl": ["Ownership of shares – 75% or more", "Ownership of voting rights - 75% or more", "Right to appoint or remove directors"],
      "notifiedOn": "2023-09-12",
      "ceasedOn": null,
      "legalForm": "Private Limited Company",
      "registrationNumber": "14785367"
    }
  ],
  "pscStatements": [],
  "pscExemptions": [],
  "matchType": "normalized",
  "matchConfidence": 0.95,
  "companyUrl": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09446231",
  "outcome": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-09T15:30:26+00:00"
}

(The example is shortened to one officer and one PSC.) A name with no match, or a number that does not exist, gets a row with outcome: "not-found", the reason in error and, for a name, the top 3 search results in candidates. Those rows are free.

The dataset has three views: Companies (one row per company with status, first 3 directors and PSC names), All officers (one row per officer) and Persons with significant control (one row per PSC).

Pricing

Pay per company, one event:

• company-with-officers: $0.006 (from 21 October 2026) for each company returned with at least one officer. All of its officers and PSCs are included, however many there are.
• A company not found, or with no officers to return, is free.

Worked example. 1,000 UK companies with an average of 5 directors each cost 1,000 x $0.006 = $6.00. An Actor that bills $0.004 per company plus $0.002 for each flat officer record would charge $14.00 for the same list, because the 5,000 officers add $10.00. Here every officer is already inside the company row.

Set a maximum total charge on the run and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

What to expect

Measured on a local test of 10 company numbers and 5 names: every input matched, all 14 distinct companies returned officers (137 current officers in all), names, roles, appointment dates and addresses were filled for 100% of officers, and month of birth, nationality and residence for 90% (secretaries and corporate officers have none). Listed PLCs are exempt from PSC rules, so they return a PSC exemption instead of a PSC list. A run of 15 inputs took about a minute.

Limits

• Occupation is not returned. The public register website no longer shows officer occupations; only the keyed Companies House API does.
• Dates of birth are month and year only, as Companies House publishes them.
• Officers of a dissolved company stay listed as they were on the day it was dissolved.
• Names are matched against Companies House search; a very generic name ("Smith Limited") may match a different company than you meant. Check matchType and matchConfidence, or use the company number.
• The same company given twice (for example as a number and a name) is returned and charged once.
• Pacing is 1 request a second by default and never above 2 a second, so 1,000 companies take roughly an hour.

Use with Python

# pip install apify-client
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("datagleaner/uk-company-directors").call(run_input={
    "companies": ["00445790", "Monzo Bank"],  # 2 x $0.006 = $0.012
})
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item["companyName"], item["status"], item["topDirectors"], item["pscNames"])

Use with JavaScript / Node.js

// npm install apify-client
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('datagleaner/uk-company-directors').call({
    companies: ['Revolut Ltd', '09446231'],
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
for (const item of items) {
    console.log(item.companyName, item.officers.map((o) => `${o.name} (${o.role})`));
}

Use it from n8n, Make, Zapier or an AI agent

Actor ID: datagleaner/uk-company-directors

Minimal input:

{"companies": ["00445790", "Monzo Bank"]}

Each tool below runs this Actor with your own Apify API token.

• n8n: add the Apify node (@apify/n8n-nodes-apify). On n8n Cloud you install it from the community node registry. Choose Run an Actor and get dataset, set Actor to datagleaner/uk-company-directors and paste the input above.

• Make: use the Apify app's Run an Actor module, then Get Dataset Items to read the results. Watch Actor Runs can trigger a scenario when a run finishes.

• Zapier: use the Apify action Run Actor, then the search Fetch dataset items. The trigger Finished Actor run starts a Zap when a run ends.

• AI agents (MCP): connect to https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=datagleaner/uk-company-directors. In Claude Code:

  claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=datagleaner/uk-company-directors"
  

  Then run /mcp to sign in to Apify in your browser. Other clients can sign in with OAuth or send the header Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN. Clients that run local MCP servers can use Apify's package (@apify/actors-mcp-server, run with npx -y and APIFY_TOKEN set) instead. Then ask the agent in plain words, for example:

  Who are the current directors and the persons with significant control of Octopus Energy Limited? Give me their roles and appointment dates.

• LangChain (Python):

# pip install langchain-apify, then set APIFY_TOKEN in your environment
import json
from langchain_apify import ApifyActorsTool
tool = ApifyActorsTool("datagleaner/uk-company-directors")
result = tool.invoke({"run_input": json.loads('{"companies": ["00445790", "Monzo Bank"]}')})

FAQ

How do I find the directors of a UK company? Put the company name or number in companies. Each row lists the current directors and secretaries with their roles and appointment dates; topDirectors shows the first three.

How do I find who owns a UK company? Leave includePsc on. The psc list gives each person or company with significant control and the share of ownership or votes they hold. Listed PLCs are exempt and say so in pscExemptions.

Do I need a Companies House API key? No. The Actor reads the public register website.

Can I search by company name? Yes. The name is searched on Companies House and the best match is taken; matchType and matchConfidence tell you how close it was. Use the company number when you need certainty.

Can I get former directors? Yes, turn on includeResigned. Each officer then carries status and resignedOn.

Does it cover Scottish, Northern Irish companies and LLPs? Yes: any number on the UK register, such as SC..., NI... and OC....

Responsible use

This Actor reads the public Companies House register only. Director and PSC data is personal data: names, month and year of birth, nationality, residence and addresses of real people. Your use of it must comply with UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, including having a lawful basis, keeping it accurate and secure, and honouring people's rights. Do not use it for unsolicited marketing without meeting PECR rules, or for harassment or profiling of individuals. Companies House does not check the accuracy of what companies file.