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Key document. Companies Act 2006. Website. companieshouse .gov .uk. Companies House is the executive agency of the British Government that maintains the register of companies, employs the company registrars and is responsible for incorporating all forms of companies in the United Kingdom. [3] [4] Prior to 1844, no central company register ...
The Property Ombudsman (TPO) scheme is an ombudsman in the United Kingdom. It has been providing consumers and property agents with an alternative dispute resolution service since 1990. [3] [4] The scheme was underpinned by statute in 2007 (estate agents) and 2014 (letting and managing agents) and approved by the UK government to help consumers ...
118 118 is the UK telephone number for a US owned directory enquiries provider. Once wildly popular for its advertising featuring two runners, the service has experienced a dramatic decline in calls due to easily accessible information via mobile devices [citation needed]. Calls are answered from call centres in the Philippines, with some ...
The House of Lords is known formally as "The Right Honourable The Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled", the Lords Spiritual being bishops of the Church of England and the Lords Temporal being Peers of the Realm. The Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal are considered separate "estates", but they sit, debate and vote together.
Between 1990 and 2017 UK governments spent at least £630m on public inquiries, [4] with most expensive being the Bloody Sunday Inquiry costing £210.6 million. [4] [5] Most public inquiries take about two years to complete their work. [4] The Hammond Inquiry into ministerial conduct relating to the Hinduja affair in 2001 has been the shortest ...
From the introduction of the telephone in the late 1870s, [5] to the early 1990s, telephone numbers in most of the United Kingdom were usually shown with a written exchange name followed by the subscriber number, e.g. 'Mallaig 10' or 'Aberdeen 43342'. This allowed calls to be placed initially through the operator and later by using local or ...
Post Office Limited, commonly known as the Post Office, is a retail post office company in the United Kingdom that provides a wide range of postal and non-postal related products including postage stamps, banking, insurance, bureau de change and Identity Services to the public through its nationwide network of around 11,500 post office branches.
The Rail Delivery Group Limited ( RDG ), previously the Association of Train Operating Companies, is the British rail industry membership body that brings together passenger and freight rail companies, Network Rail and High Speed 2. [2] [3] [4] The RDG is approximately half-funded by Network Rail, the remainder of its funding being provided by ...