# Disqualified directors? **URL:** \ **Category:** Bulk Data Requests\ **Created:** [June 5, 2021, 8:14am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/disqualified-directors/3977 "2021-06-05T08:14:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![opensanctions](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/258eb7/32.png) [@opensanctions](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/opensanctions)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2021, 8:14am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/disqualified-directors/3977/1 "2021-06-05T08:14:33Z")
Hey all, I’m trying to understand the situation around getting disqualified directors data in bulk. Via the REST API I can sort of paginate through them, but the pagination limit of 1000 means we’re missing about a third of all records. Plus, using the REST API seems counter to its objectives. The list at [Director disqualification outcomes: summary of results](https://www.insolvencydirect.bis.gov.uk/IESdatabase/viewdirectorsummary-new.asp) has only 200+ entries, much less than the REST API. I’ve also seen references to an XML API, but that’s a whole different site? Is there an FTP access for this data? Many thanks, - Friedrich ---
**Author:** ![voracityemail](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/b77776/32.png) [@voracityemail](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/voracityemail)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 2:18pm UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/disqualified-directors/3977/2 "2021-06-06T14:18:27Z")
I’m not aware of a bulk list for disqualified officers / directors. I think I saw somewhere on this forum someone ask for that and get a response from Companies House that this wasn’t available. The links for information around this (for anyone else looking) are: - [Director disqualifications at the insolvency service](https://www.insolvencydirect.bis.gov.uk/IESdatabase/viewdirectorsummary-new.asp) - they state they only add recent ones and may not actually list all of these. - [More information on what the insolvency service list on](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/unfit-conduct-our-disqualification-and-restrictions-search-facilities--2) / provide (“unfit conduct”). - [Information about what’s in the Disqualified directors register](https://www.gov.uk/search-the-register-of-disqualified-company-directors) e.g. what you can get via this API. - There is [a “data page” for the Disqualified directors list](https://data.gov.uk/dataset/7dba6fad-83b0-41eb-aad5-b03013c2b0e6/disqualified-directors-dataset) but you can’t actually get the information there - it says “data hasn’t been released”. The XML Gateway API was essentially a predecessor to the REST API. - It operates in parallel to the REST API - I think it draws from the same underlying data but is not exactly equivalent. - It is not a free service - you need to sign up and there is a cost. - There may be some things that you can achieve using that service that you can’t do in the API. I’m not certain about this though. See my post on the following thread: [Officer Id in disqualified officers api - #7 by voracityemail](https://forum.aws.chdev.org/t/officer-id-in-disqualified-officers-api/3252/7) There _are_ bulk data for Officers, PSCs and general company information available however. ---
**Author:** ![opensanctions](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/258eb7/32.png) [@opensanctions](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/opensanctions)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 7:30am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/disqualified-directors/3977/3 "2021-06-07T07:30:58Z")
@voracityemail - Wow thanks for that explainer, very helpful summary. My read from this whole situation is that there isn’t really a good way to get the whole dataset in some structured form - obviously a deeply problematic outcome, but there are probably internal complexities to this. I’m still curious to hear if anyone does have more information about the supposed FTP option?