Hello again,
I am reviewing the incorporation dates of companies in the live snapshot and I noticed two dates have a disproportionate number of incorporations that do not match the daily trends of months around them. On 01/01/1900 there were 1,838 and on 01/01/1981 there were 4,680. I reviewed the documents in the file history of a handful of companies and it looks like those might not be the actual incorporation dates, I am curious if this is simply an issue of the digitisation of historic records or if it was assigned as the default value at some point? Thanks!
So sorry for such a delay in responding, but I have still not got a definitive answer.
What I have so far is:-
- it is known about
- a significant number of these are non standard corporate body types (Assurance Companies/Registered Societies/Royal Charter Companies) where they do not incorporate with us but we just hold their details on file. The incorporation date then seems to be some form of default.
- we should not be outputting an incorporation date for registered companies hence our links to the mutuals register e.g. BIGGAR BREWING CO-OPERATIVE LIMITED overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK
I am still trying to find out more info.
Hope that helps for now.