Upcoming Companies House maintenance periods
- 5pm Thursday 15th to 9am Monday 19th May 2025
What’s the impact of the Companies House maintenance period?
During this maintenance, filings that have a Companies House filing fee will not be processed by Companies House. This is the following filing types:
- Confirmation statements
- Changes of company name
- Incorporations
- Registration of mortgages/charges
You will still be able to use Inform Direct as normal during this time, including completing the above processes but note that they will remain as ‘Pending’ until Companies House has completed their maintenance. Please do not try to send the same filing for the same company again while it is ‘Pending’.
Companies House are expecting that other filings will progress as normal.
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Companies House IT changes
We understand that this is part of a large project to both move their IT infrastructure and improve the information held on the register of companies in line with the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill, and that it may take several years.
Companies House have advised there will likely be multiple periods of downtime at short notice for the foreseeable future.
From experience, most of their maintenance periods in the past have been on weekends – and usually Saturdays – or not during normal working hours.
We will continue to update this article as and when we are informed of more maintenance periods – so please check back regularly.
Completed periods:
- Thursday 5th to Monday 9th December 2024
- Saturday 16th November 2024 8am to 2pm
- Sunday 8th September 2024 8am to 6pm
- Saturday 6th July 2024 12pm to 3pm
- Saturday 8th June 2024 8am to 6pm
- Friday 24th November 2023 6pm to Monday 27th November 2023 6am
- Friday 17th November 2023 6pm to Monday 20th November 2023 6am
- Saturday 23rd September 2023 7am to 10am
- Thursday 15th June 2023 7pm to 10pm
- Wednesday 22nd March 2023 8pm to midnight
- Friday 3rd March 2023 8pm to Monday 6th March 2023 8am
- Monday 6th February 2023 6pm to 10pm
- Saturday 27th January 2023 8am to noon
- Saturday 7th January 2023 8am to noon
- Saturday 19th November 2022 8am to 10pm
- Sunday 20th November 2022 9am to Monday 21st November 2022 6am
- Friday 14th October 2022 6pm to Monday 17th October 2022 6am
- Saturday 17th September 2022 6am to Monday 19th September 2022 6am
- Sunday 11th September 2022 11pm to Monday 12th September 2022 2pm
- Saturday 20th August 2022 8am to 2pm
- Saturday 13th August 2022 7:45am to 11am
- Saturday 16th July 2022 8.00am to 6pm
- Saturday 11th June 2022 8am to Sunday 12th June 2022 midnight
- Saturday 18th June 2022 8am to Sunday 19th June 2022 midnight
- Saturday 4th June 2022 10am to 2pm
- Saturday 21st May 2022 10am to 2pm
- Sunday 15th May 2022 8am to 8pm
- Saturday 7th May 2022 8am to 3pm
- Sunday 24th April 2022 8am to 8pm
- Thursday 24th February 2022 8pm to midnight
- Sunday 20th February 2022 8am to 4pm
- Wednesday 2nd February 2022 8pm to midnight
- Saturday 22nd January 2022 8am to 10am
- Saturday 13th November 2021 12am to Monday 15th November 6am
- Saturday 23rd October 2021 7am to 5pm
- Saturday 16th October 2021 7am to 12pm
- Saturday 9th October 2021 10am to 1pm
- Saturday 7th August 2021 9am to 1pm
- Saturday 10th June 2021 8am to 8pm
- Monday 24th May 2021 8pm to Tuesday 25th May 6am
- Monday 17th May 2021 10pm to Tuesday 18th May 4am
- Sunday 16th May 2021 8am to 4pm
- Saturday 15th May 2021 8am to 4pm
- Saturday 17th April 2021 8am to 4pm
- Friday 26th March 2021 8pm to Saturday 27th March 6am
- Saturday 27th March 2021 8pm to Sunday 28th March 6am
- Wednesday 24th March 2021 8pm to 10pm
- Saturday 6th March 2021 8am to 8pm
- Saturday 13th February 2021 8am to 2pm
- Saturday 20th February 2021 8am to 10am
Updates to this article
This article was updated 28th November 2024 to reflect the announced Companies House maintenance starting on 5th December 2024.
This article was updated 21st November 2023 to reflect the announced Companies House maintenance starting on 24th November 2023.
This article was updated 14th November 2023 to reflect the announced Companies House maintenance starting on 17th November 2023.
This article was updated 17 October 2023 to reflect the announced Companies House maintenance starting on 20th October 2023 that was then cancelled.
This article was updated 13 June 2023 to reflect the announced Companies House maintenance on 15 June 2023.
This article was updated 20 March 2023 to reflect the announced Companies House maintenance on 22 March 2023.
This article was updated 3 March 2023 to reflect the announced Companies House maintenance on 3 March to 6 March 2023 inclusive.
This article was updated 30 January 2023 to reflect the announced Companies House maintenance on 1 February 2023.
This article was updated 9 January 2023 to reflect the completion of the announced Companies House maintenance on 7 January 2023.
This article was updated on 16 November 2022 to reflect the recently announced Companies House maintenance on 19 November 2022.
This article was updated on 5 October 2022 to reflect the recently announced Companies House maintenance on the weekend of 14 – 17 October 2022.
This article was updated on 14 September 2022 to reflect the recently announced Companies House maintenance on the weekend of 17 – 19 September 2022.