Identity verification
Companies House now verifies the identity of directors and people with significant control. snapdue shows you where each of yours stands.
Who this is for: Directors and people with significant control of a UK company.
What you get out of it
Why the registrar now asks
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act made identity verification a requirement at Companies House rather than a nicety. A director or person with significant control has to verify who they are, and the registrar records whether they have, together with the date the statement was made and the date the next one is due.
That record is public, and it is per person rather than per company. A company with four officers can carry four different answers.
What snapdue shows you
snapdue reads the verification state the registrar publishes for each officer of a company you follow, and shows all four states rather than collapsing them into verified and not verified. Reading only two of them misleads the owner, because the statement date and the due date sit together and one without the other says nothing useful.
Verification is not the same as control
Verification at Companies House is about the register. Claiming a company inside snapdue is a separate question, and a stricter one. A verified identity proves who a person is, and it does not prove they control a particular business. snapdue gates the private pack on an HMRC connection instead, because that is a claim about the company rather than about the person.
The public register stays open either way. Companies House data is free to anyone, so snapdue never gates it behind a check.