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Person with significant control (PSC)

A person with significant control (PSC) is a person or legal entity that owns or controls a UK company above thresholds set in law, and is recorded on the company's public PSC register at Companies House.

Last updated 29 Oct 2026

How Bradshaw uses the term

Bradshaw reads the PSC register to show which companies hold shares in other companies. Individuals are left out. Years held are counted from the date a PSC was first notified, and the earliest dates are shown as a minimum, never an exact count.

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