Companies House Deadlines

Get the UK companies that are late with their Companies House filings, or about to be: overdue annual accounts and confirmation statements, and the ones due in the next weeks. Each comes with its due dates, how many days are left or overdue, its status, type, registered office, industry and, on request, its directors.

• Every UK company: the 5.7 million on Companies House's register, searched in one run.
• Checked live: each company's deadlines are read off its Companies House page as of today, so the ones that have filed since are left out.
• Overdue or due soon: accounts, confirmation statements or both; overdue by at least or at most so many days, or due within the next so many days.
• Filters: postcode area or district, post town, SIC code, company type, accounts type (size), incorporation date and proposals to strike off.
• Directors on request: the current officers, with role, appointment date and correspondence address.

It costs $3 per 1,000 companies, plus $0.01 a run for the search of the register.

What people use it for

• Accountants and bookkeepers: companies that have just missed their accounts or statement, and new companies facing their first accounts, the clients most in need of one.
• Company secretarial and formation agents: confirmation statements due next month, to offer the filing before the deadline.
• Lenders and credit risk: late filers among applicants and customers; late accounts are one of the first signs of trouble.
• Debt collection and insolvency practitioners: companies long overdue or proposed for striking off, before they are dissolved.
• B2B sales and data teams: fresh lists of small companies by area and industry, with the directors to address.

How to find companies with overdue accounts

1. Click Try for free; Apify's free plan covers a first run.
2. Pick the Filings and Deadline (overdue or due soon), and optionally Postcodes, SIC codes or Accounts types.
3. Click Start, then download the companies as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the API. Schedule it weekly for each week's new late filers.

An input with more options:

{
  "filings": ["accounts"],
  "deadline": ["overdue"],
  "maxDaysOverdue": 60,
  "postcodes": ["M", "SK", "WA14"],
  "sicCodes": ["62", "70229"],
  "companyTypes": ["private-limited"],
  "accountsTypes": ["micro-entity", "total-exemption", "none-filed"],
  "includeDirectors": true,
  "maxResults": 500
}

Output

One item per company (the company and people made up):

{
  "companyName": "EXAMPLE DIGITAL LTD",
  "companyNumber": "12345678",
  "status": "Active",
  "companyType": "Private limited Company",
  "incorporationDate": "2021-06-14",
  "careOf": null,
  "addressLine1": "12 EXAMPLE STREET",
  "addressLine2": null,
  "postTown": "MANCHESTER",
  "county": null,
  "country": "ENGLAND",
  "postcode": "M1 1AA",
  "sicCodes": ["62020"],
  "natureOfBusiness": ["Information technology consultancy activities"],
  "accountsType": "MICRO ENTITY",
  "accountingReferenceDate": "06-30",
  "accountsMadeUpTo": "2025-06-30",
  "accountsDueDate": "2026-03-31",
  "accountsLastMadeUpTo": "2024-06-30",
  "confirmationStatementDate": "2027-06-13",
  "confirmationStatementDueDate": "2027-06-27",
  "confirmationStatementLastMadeUpTo": "2026-06-13",
  "registeredAddress": "12 Example Street, Manchester, England, M1 1AA",
  "outstandingCharges": 0,
  "url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12345678",
  "asOf": "2026-09-29",
  "accountsOverdue": true,
  "confirmationStatementOverdue": false,
  "accountsDaysLeft": -182,
  "confirmationStatementDaysLeft": 271,
  "directors": [
    {
      "name": "Jane Example",
      "role": "Director",
      "appointedOn": "2021-06-14",
      "nationality": "British",
      "countryOfResidence": "England",
      "correspondenceAddress": "12 Example Street, Manchester, England, M1 1AA"
    }
  ]
}

accountsDaysLeft and confirmationStatementDaysLeft are negative when overdue. accountsMadeUpTo is the period the next accounts cover, and accountingReferenceDate the company's year end (month-day). asOf is the day the deadlines are from: today when checked live, else the date of Companies House's file. directors is there with Include directors on.

Use it as an API

One call runs it and returns the companies as JSON. Apify's Python and JavaScript clients, and its Make, Zapier and n8n integrations, work the same way.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/pikoulas~companies-house-deadlines/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"deadline": ["overdue"], "maxDaysOverdue": 30, "towns": ["Leeds"], "maxResults": 100}'

AI agents can call it as a tool through Apify's MCP server: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=pikoulas/companies-house-deadlines.

How much does it cost to get companies with overdue accounts?

You pay $0.003 per company, $3 per 1,000, and $0.01 a run for the search of the 5.7 million companies. A run of 1,000 companies is about $3.01. maxResults caps what a run can cost. Runs that go through Apify's residential proxy also pay its traffic, $0.0012 per 100 KB; none is needed. There are no monthly fees.

Good to know

• Where it comes from: Companies House's free company data file, published monthly, for the search, and each company's public page for its deadlines as of today. Of the companies overdue on the file's date, most have filed within a month, which the live check catches.
• Speed: the file is read in company name order and the run stops at Max results, so a broad search is done in seconds. A narrow one (one town and one industry) reads the whole file, under a minute.
• Accounts types are the kind of accounts last filed: micro-entity and total exemption are the small companies, none filed yet the new ones.
• Overdue is Companies House's own flag on the page, and a due date already past.
• What isn't in it: registered societies, royal charter bodies and other registers without these filings; dissolved companies and those in liquidation or administration.

FAQ

Is it legal to use Companies House data?

Companies House publishes this data for anyone to reuse, under the Open Government Licence, and it reads only public pages without logging in. Directors' names and addresses are personal data, protected by the UK GDPR, which limits how you may use them (marketing included); the PECR govern emails and calls to individuals. If you're unsure, ask a lawyer; Apify's Is web scraping legal? is a good start.

Does it give emails or phone numbers?

No: Companies House holds neither. Pair it with an email finder, or with Company Leadership Finder for a company's team.

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