When is a confirmation statement due?

By Christopher Goodchild, Founder, FiledOnTime. Checked against GOV.UK: confirmation statement guidance on 7 Sept 2026.

A confirmation statement covers a review period of 12 months, and must be filed within 14 days of the end of that period. The review period runs from the date of incorporation for a company’s first statement, and from the confirmation statement date of the previous filing after that. Filing late, or not at all, can lead to a fine of up to £5,000 and the company being struck off the register. The filing fee is £50 online or £110 by paper.

The rule, in one sentence

You have 14 days after the end of the review period to file. GOV.UK puts it as plainly as that: you can file your statement up to 14 days after the review period has ended.

Working out the review period

The review period is 12 months long. For a company’s very first confirmation statement it starts on the date of incorporation. After that, it starts on the confirmation statement date of the previous filing. So the date drifts if you file early: file a statement in March and the next review period runs from that March date, not from the anniversary you had before.

This is why the due date is worth reading from the register rather than calculating it once and storing it. Filing early moves the next deadline, and so does anything else that resets the review period. A date typed into a spreadsheet in January can be wrong by February through nobody’s fault.

What happens if you miss it

Companies House is direct about the consequences: you can be fined up to £5,000 and the company may be struck off if the confirmation statement is not filed. Unlike accounts, there is no automatic sliding scale of late filing penalties, which in practice makes it easier to treat as less urgent than it is. Being struck off is the more serious outcome of the two.

The fee

The fee is £50 to file online and £110 by paper. It is charged once per 12 month payment period rather than per statement, so filing more than one statement in a payment period does not cost more. Fees were last updated on 1 February 2026.

A confirmation statement is not accounts

They are separate obligations with separate deadlines, and confusing them is a common way to miss one. A confirmation statement confirms that the information Companies House holds about the company is correct: officers, registered office, shareholders, SIC codes and people with significant control. It says nothing about the company’s finances. Annual accounts are a different filing, on a different date derived from the accounting reference date.

From 18 November 2025 the confirmation statement also carries identity verification information for existing directors, which ties the two obligations together for the first time.

Where this sits

FiledOnTime reads these dates from the Companies House register and reminds you before each one. It does not verify anyone's identity and does not file anything on your behalf. Always confirm a date against the register before acting on it, or before deciding not to.

This guide is general information, not advice for a particular company. If something here does not match what the register says about a company you look after, the register is what counts.