on the central register which is held and published by Companies House, instead of maintaining their own registers. These records include: Register of members Register of people with significant control Register of directors Register of directors’ usual residential addresses Register of secretaries Controversy In February 2008, The Times and Computer Weekly broke a story that almost 4,000 of the names on the Companies House register of directors were on international watchlists of alleged fraudsters, money launderers, terror financiers and corrupt officials. The results came from Datanomic who had screened the 6.8 million names on the register against a World-Check database of high risk individuals and businesses. The exercise also revealed more than 1,500 disqualified company directors were being allowed to run other UK companies as Companies House was not checking names against its register of disqualified persons. See also List of company registers References External links Executive agencies of the United Kingdom government Trading funds of the United Kingdom government English law Scots law Government databases in the United Kingdom Cathays Department for Business, Innovation and Skills United Kingdom company law Government-owned companies of the United Kingdom Registrars of companies