Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 10 November 2009.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what targets Companies House set for the time taken to process electronic incorporations in (a) July, (b) August, (c) September and (d) October 2009; how many such incorporations were not dealt with within the target time in each such month; and what steps Companies House has taken to deal with such incorporations not handled within target times.
The target Companies House has for the processing of electronic incorporations is 95 per cent. within three working days. This was set out in my statement to the House on
The percentages of incorporations that did not meet these targets were:
Percentage | |
July | 4 |
August | 0.3 |
September | 0.05 |
October | 19 |
The increase in numbers of incorporations failing to meet the target in October was due to the implementation of the Companies Act 2006 and a variety of factors including: data processing issues; customer and staff lack of familiarity with new requirements; and initial issues with system performance.
Steps taken include: assigning resources; identifying and fixing data validation issues; clarifying and communicating policy issues. These steps resulted in incorporations targets being met from
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