Understand how your Companies House Personal Code connects your verified identity with the correct LLP role and establish where, when and how the same code must be provided for member and PSC processes.

Determine the Appropriate LLP Personal Code and Role Connection Route.

Whether you have completed identity verification, cannot find your Personal Code, need to provide it for an LLP member or PSC process, or are dealing with several roles, our professional team helps you identify the correct code-use stage and matching information and progress the appropriate role-connection or underlying LLP route.

Identify the individual, LLP and affected member or PSC role before deciding where the Personal Code needs to be provided.

Confirm whether identity verification has already been completed and distinguish verification from the separate Personal Code issue, access and role-connection stages.

Establish how the individual can access or locate the Personal Code according to the verification route used, without treating the code as an LLP credential.

Check the matching information, including the individual's name, date of birth, LLP, affected role and relevant event, before the code is used.

Keep member and PSC code use distinct even where the same individual normally uses the same Personal Code for several affected roles.

Provide the Personal Code through the correct role-specific process for incorporation, member admission, confirmation-statement or PSC requirements as applicable.

Understand that receiving, saving or providing the code does not itself complete the underlying LLP event, create membership, establish PSC status or grant general filing authority.

Identify the correct next route where the code does not connect, including checking code entry, personal details, role selection, LLP records or the underlying filing position.

Use professional support where code access, matching information, several LLP roles or an apparent record discrepancy requires further assessment rather than automatically repeating identity verification.

Reduce avoidable administrative errors and back-and-forth by establishing the correct person, role, event, matching information and code-use route before progressing the relevant LLP procedure.

Determine Your LLP Personal Code and Role Connection Route

Coddan CPM is a UK-based legal and corporate services firm providing professional support with Companies House Personal Code and role-connection requirements for LLP members and, where applicable, PSCs through its ACSP framework.
Call us on: 033 0808 0089 to discuss the appropriate Personal Code and role-connection route for your LLP circumstances.

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Companies House Personal Codes and Role Connection for LLP Members and PSCs

Completing identity verification is not always the last step. The individual may still need to provide their Companies House Personal Code through the correct LLP member or PSC process so that the verified identity is connected to the right LLP and role.

Where the code is used What information to provide

Verification, code issue, code access, code use and role connection are different stages. None of them, by itself, admits a member, designates a member, creates PSC status or completes the underlying LLP event.

What happens after identity verification?

This page may help where an individual has completed verification but does not know what happens next, where the code belongs, or how it is used for an LLP member or individual PSC role.

You cannot find the code

The correct access route depends on whether the person verified through GOV.UK One Login or an authorised agent.

You do not know where to use it

Incorporation, admission of a new member, an existing member’s confirmation statement and the PSC process use the code differently.

You hold several roles

The same individual may be a member, designated member and PSC, or may hold affected roles across several LLPs and companies.

The connection does not work

The code, date of birth, verification details, LLP record or selected role process may not match.

What is your Companies House Personal Code?

Companies House gives or makes available an 11-character Personal Code after an individual successfully completes identity verification. It is the individual’s code—not a code belonging to the LLP.

Personal to the individual

The code belongs to the verified natural person. It does not belong to the LLP, Coddan or another filing agent.

Normally retained and reused

One person normally keeps the same code for relevant LLP and company roles rather than receiving a new one for each entity.

Not an LLP credential

It is not the LLP authentication code, registration number, Unique Taxpayer Reference or another partnership credential.

Not authority to act

Possessing the code does not authorise a person to file for the LLP, make an LLP decision or act for the individual generally.

A corporate member or RLE does not receive an individual Personal Code. Any natural person connected with that entity must be assessed through the person’s own current capacity, such as individual LLP member or individual PSC.

Six separate stages—not one automatic result

“Connecting the verified identity to the role” means that Companies House uses the code and matching personal details to associate the verified person with the relevant registered or proposed LLP capacity. It is not a separate legal office or a substitute for the LLP event.

1. Identity verificationThe individual completes the free official route or an appropriate ACSP route, and the verification information is accepted within the Companies House framework.
2. Personal Code issueCompanies House gives or makes available the individual’s Personal Code after successful verification.
3. Code access and retentionThe individual obtains the code through the route applying to the verification method and keeps it safe for future role use.
4. Code useThe correct code is supplied through the process applying to the particular LLP member or PSC role.
5. Role connectionCompanies House matches the verified identity and personal details with that specific LLP and affected role.
6. Underlying LLP eventThe incorporation, member admission, confirmation statement, PSC matter or other LLP event must still be validly prepared and completed.

Receiving the code does not mean that it has been used. Saving it to a Companies House account does not connect it automatically to every LLP or role.

How will you receive or find the code?

The access route depends on how identity verification was completed.

Free official route

GOV.UK One Login

Sign in to Companies House using the same email address used for verification and open “Manage account” to view the code.

Companies House says it also sends the code by email where verification was completed after 8 July 2026. After a successful Post Office route, the code can be viewed through the Companies House account.

Read the official Personal Code guidance

Supported route

Verification through an ACSP

Companies House sends the Personal Code to the email address supplied for the individual by the ACSP. The ACSP does not create or issue the code.

The individual may save the code to a Companies House account using the email address to which the code was sent, together with the code and date of birth.

If the ACSP supplied an incorrect email address, contact that ACSP. It may need to contact Companies House.

Coddan cannot promise to retrieve, regenerate or change a code independently. Companies House controls code delivery, replacement and cancellation.

Where must the code be provided?

The correct process depends on the individual’s LLP role and the event. A convenient filing channel must not be used as a substitute for identifying the real event.

Individual and event	Where the code is used	What the code does not complete
Proposed individual member	The correct code and required identity statement are dealt with through the LLP incorporation process for that proposed member.	It does not incorporate the LLP, create the membership agreement or secure registration.
New individual member	The code and confirmation are supplied through the applicable individual-member appointment process.	It does not admit the person, prove consent or validate the effective date.
Existing individual member	The code is provided through the applicable LLP confirmation-statement process during the transition.	It does not replace the confirmation statement’s own statutory work or update unrelated information.
Individual PSC	The code is provided separately through the current PSC identity-verification process within the period applying to that person.	It does not establish the PSC condition, nature of control or correctness of the PSC record.
Individual designated member	The person uses the member process. Designation alone does not require a second Personal Code or a third role connection.	It does not make or end the designation or perform the designated member’s wider responsibilities.

Identity Verification Before and During LLP Incorporation

If you are both an LLP member and PSC

The individual normally uses the same Companies House Personal Code, but must provide it separately through the process applying to each capacity. The role-specific timing may also differ.

Member use

Use the code through the incorporation, appointment or confirmation-statement process that applies to the individual’s membership.

PSC use

Provide the same code separately through the applicable PSC process within the individual’s own compliance period.

One identity check does not mean one combined role step.

Providing the code for the member capacity does not automatically complete the PSC requirement. Providing it as a PSC does not complete the member requirement. Designated-member status does not add another identity check merely because the person is designated.

Using one code for several LLPs or roles

Identity verification is personal to the individual. The code can normally be reused, but every affected LLP and role must still be dealt with through its own applicable process.

Verify once

The individual normally completes identity verification once rather than repeating it for every LLP.

Reuse the same code

The same Personal Code is normally used for relevant LLP and company roles held by that person.

Provide it separately

Each affected LLP, company and member, director or PSC role still needs its own applicable code-use step.

Complete each event

One successful connection does not admit a member or update another LLP, company or role automatically.

Repeated code use is not automatically repeated identity verification, and it does not automatically justify another paid verification service.

Corporate members, RLEs and other connections

The Personal Code belongs to a natural person and is used for an affected individual Companies House role. It is not issued because somebody has a general association with the LLP.

Corporate member

The entity does not receive an individual Personal Code. Corporate-member identity-verification requirements remain future under current Companies House guidance.

RLE

A registrable relevant legal entity is reported through the PSC regime where applicable, but it is not treated as an individual code holder.

Officer or beneficial owner

A person does not use a code merely because they are an officer or owner behind a corporate member. A separate current individual-member or individual-PSC role must be established.

Identity Verification for LLPs with Corporate Members, RLEs and Individual Controllers

Current, transitional and future position

The following position was checked on 20 September 2026. The relevant role and date should be checked again before a code is used.

Current

Member and PSC code use

Codes are currently used for proposed individual members at incorporation, newly admitted individual members, existing individual members through the applicable confirmation-statement process, and individual PSCs through their separate PSC process.

Transitional

Individual and role-specific dates

Mandatory identity verification began on 18 November 2025. Existing members and PSCs follow the timing applying to their circumstances.

18 November 2026 is not one universal deadline for every member, PSC or LLP.

Future

Corporate and general-filer requirements

Requirements for corporate LLP members, officers of corporate PSCs and people filing at Companies House are announced for later introduction and must not be treated as currently operational.

Current PSC timing in brief

An individual who became a PSC after 18 November 2025 may provide the code when first added to the register or within the applicable 14-day period after being added.

For an existing PSC, the applicable 14-day period depends on whether the person is also a member of the same LLP. The dates should be checked for that individual rather than inferred from a general deadline.

The free route remains available

An eligible individual may complete identity verification through the free official Companies House route. Professional ACSP assistance is not compulsory, and Coddan does not charge for the individual’s use of the official route.

Free Companies House verification

The person verifies through the available official service, then receives or accesses the Personal Code through the current official process.

Review the free official route

Separately agreed Coddan work

The individual may still ask Coddan to undertake separately agreed incorporation, appointment, PSC, confirmation-statement or LLP support work. Using the free verification route does not prevent that.

What Coddan can coordinate

Coddan CPM Limited is registered with Companies House as an Authorised Corporate Service Provider, also known as a Companies House authorised agent, and is supervised by HMRC for anti-money-laundering purposes.

Identify the person and event

Confirm the individual, LLP, affected capacity and whether the matter concerns incorporation, appointment, an existing membership or PSC process.

Confirm verification and access

Establish how the person verified, which email address was used and whether the code was received or can be accessed.

Separate member and PSC uses

Identify each LLP and capacity for which the same individual code must be provided separately.

Coordinate authorised filings

Where Coddan is authorised and appropriately instructed, use a supplied code through an agreed incorporation or filing process within the confirmed scope.

Identify an apparent mismatch

Compare the code-use context, name, date of birth, email address, LLP and role information before selecting another route.

Direct the unresolved problem

Identify where Companies House action, a record correction, an LLP filing or professional advice may be required.

Coddan does not create or issue the code, control Companies House emails, use a code without authority, validate the underlying role or guarantee filing acceptance.

Where Coddan’s supported verification route fits

This page concerns Personal Codes rather than the full verification service. Where Coddan’s supported route is selected and confirmed, the stages remain separately identifiable.

1. Identify the affected rolesCoddan records the individual, LLP and every current member or PSC capacity involved.
2. Create the individual fileCoddan records the required name, date of birth, residential address, email address and telephone number.
3. Complete the secure checkThe individual receives a secure link by email or text, supplies supported evidence and completes the required selfie or liveness step.
4. Review and submitCoddan reviews the result and exceptional evidence and, when satisfied and authorised, manually submits through its Companies House ACSP account.
5. Companies House issues the codeCompanies House sends the Personal Code to the email address supplied for the individual. The individual retains it.
6. Use it through each agreed processWhere authorised, Coddan may use the supplied code for the agreed LLP filing. Separate member and PSC uses remain identifiable.

Coddan’s client onboarding, anti-money-laundering checks, the technology result, Coddan’s evidence review, the ACSP submission, Companies House code issue, code use and the LLP event remain separate stages.

Keep your Personal Code safe

The code may be shared with a person properly authorised to make the relevant filing, but it should not be published or treated as a general LLP credential.

Authorised filing use

You may provide the code to an authorised accountant, formation agent, company secretary or other filer for a specific agreed filing.

No general enquiries

Do not include the actual code in an ordinary website enquiry, public message or document intended for general circulation.

Shared or compromised code

Contact Companies House. Its current guidance says it can send a replacement code by email and cancel the previous code.

Read the official compromised-code guidance

What if the code does not match?

A failed connection does not always mean that identity verification must be repeated. The next step depends on where the difference appears.

Code entered incorrectly

Check the characters and confirm that the code belongs to the named individual rather than another member or PSC.

Date of birth differs

Companies House says an incorrect date of birth on its records may need to be corrected before the verified identity can be connected.

ACSP-supplied details differ

Contact the ACSP that verified the individual. It may need to update information it supplied to Companies House.

Wrong role process

A member code step cannot be treated as the PSC step, or vice versa, merely because the same person and code are involved.

Underlying filing is inaccurate

An incorrect appointment, PSC record or personal detail may require its own filing or corrective route. The code cannot repair it.

Role or authority is disputed

A disputed membership, appointment, control position or filing authority may require governance or legal review rather than another verification attempt.

A Personal Code does not correct the Companies House register. Repeating verification does not necessarily resolve a record difference, and successful code use does not validate an unauthorised or inaccurate LLP event.

How we identify the correct next step

The process starts with the person and LLP event—not with entering a code into the first available filing.

Identify the person and LLP

Confirm the individual, the relevant LLP and the incorporation, appointment, existing membership or PSC event.

Separate the roles

Establish whether the person is an individual member, designated member, individual PSC or holds several capacities.

Confirm verification and access

Identify how verification was completed and whether the code was received, saved or can be accessed.

Check the matching information

Compare the name, date of birth, LLP, role and relevant event information before the code is used.

Provide the code correctly

Use the code separately through each applicable member or PSC process with the individual’s authority.

Complete the LLP work

Continue with the valid incorporation, admission, confirmation statement, PSC process or appropriate corrective route.

What information should you provide?

Provide what is available. “Not known” is an acceptable answer. You do not need to diagnose the filing or correction route before Coddan reviews the matter.

The LLP and event

Proposed or registered name, registration number and whether the matter concerns incorporation, appointment, existing membership, PSC status or a confirmation statement.

The individual

Full name, date of birth, residential address and the email address used during identity verification.

Every affected capacity

Whether the person is a member, designated member, individual PSC or holds several roles, including every affected LLP or company.

Verification route

Whether the person used GOV.UK One Login, a Post Office route, Coddan or another ACSP, and the outcome.

Code access

Whether the code was received by email, can be seen in the Companies House account or has been saved there. Do not provide the code itself.

Relevant dates

Incorporation, admission, confirmation-statement and PSC dates, including any period displayed by Companies House.

Mismatch or message

The wording of any error and any apparent difference in the name, date of birth, email address, LLP or role.

Filing support

Whether Coddan or another authorised person will make the related filing and what authority has been given.

Security concern

Whether the code may have been shared or compromised, without reproducing the code in the enquiry.

Do not place your Personal Code in a general website enquiry.

This section does not transmit an enquiry. Use Coddan’s normal contact details so that the appropriate secure route can be confirmed.

What the Personal Code does not do

Identity verification, receipt of a code and connection to a role do not by themselves:

incorporate an LLP;
admit, designate or remove a member;
create or end PSC status;
determine the nature of control;
prove that an LLP decision was authorised;
give the holder general filing authority;
turn a corporate member or RLE into an individual code holder;
submit every relevant filing automatically;
correct an inaccurate Companies House record;
update the LLP agreement or supporting records;
restore a dissolved LLP; or
guarantee acceptance of an incorporation, appointment, PSC or confirmation-statement filing.

Where one of these matters is the real problem, a separate LLP formation, post-formation, PSC, governance, confirmation-statement, correction, restoration or legal service may be required.

Who is responsible for each stage?

The individual

Completes their personal verification step, provides accurate details, keeps the code safe and authorises appropriate use.

The LLP and its members

Establish valid membership and control events, keep appropriate evidence, provide accurate instructions and complete LLP filing obligations.

Coddan

Performs only the verification, review, coordination or filing work it is authorised and engaged to undertake.

Companies House

Controls its verification services, Personal Codes, role connection, filing acceptance and the public register.

What affects the work, cost and timing?

The scope may depend on whether verification is complete, how it was completed, whether the code was received or can be accessed, the number of affected LLPs and roles, whether the individual is a member and PSC, and whether incorporation, appointment, PSC or confirmation-statement work is required.

It may also depend on name, date-of-birth, email or record differences, whether corrective work is needed, Coddan’s professional charge, Value Added Tax, applicable official charges and separately agreed filing, governance or legal work. No code-delivery time, filing time or acceptance outcome is guaranteed.

Code reuse is not automatically a new verification service. The official verification route remains free where suitable, Companies House does not make it chargeable merely because the code is used for several roles, and related LLP filings are included only where expressly agreed.

Continue with the destination that matches the underlying decision. Code use remains separate from role classification, incorporation, member or PSC changes and corrective work.

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Frequently asked questions

What is a Companies House Personal Code?

It is the 11-character code Companies House gives or makes available to an individual after successful identity verification. It is personal to that individual.

Who issues the Personal Code?

Companies House. Coddan or another ACSP may conduct and submit supported verification, but the ACSP and its technology provider do not create or issue the code.

How will I receive or find my code?

After GOV.UK One Login verification, check “Manage account” using the same email address; Companies House also emails codes for verifications completed after 8 July 2026. After ACSP verification, Companies House sends it to the email supplied by the ACSP.

Is it the same as the LLP authentication code?

No. The Personal Code belongs to a verified individual. The LLP authentication code is a separate filing credential belonging to the LLP.

Do I receive a different code for every LLP?

Normally, no. The individual reuses the same Personal Code, but must supply it through the applicable process for every affected LLP and role.

Do I need different codes as a member and PSC?

No. You normally use the same code, but provide it separately for the member capacity and the PSC capacity.

Does becoming a designated member require another code?

Not merely because the designation changes. An individual designated member verifies as an LLP member. The designation and its additional responsibilities remain separate.

Where is the code used when forming an LLP?

The correct Personal Code and required identity statement for each proposed individual member are dealt with through the LLP incorporation process. The code does not itself incorporate the LLP.

Where does a new individual member provide the code?

Through the applicable individual-member appointment process. The person’s valid admission and the LLP’s filing obligations remain separate.

Where does an existing member provide the code?

Through the applicable LLP confirmation-statement process during the transition. A person connected with several LLPs must deal with each LLP separately.

When does an individual PSC provide the code?

The PSC has an applicable 14-day period. Its timing depends on whether the PSC was registered before 18 November 2025, whether the person is also a member of the same LLP, or whether the person became a PSC after commencement.

Does a corporate member or RLE receive a Personal Code?

No individual Personal Code is issued to the legal entity. A natural person connected with it must be assessed through any separate current individual-member or individual-PSC capacity.

Can Coddan use the code in a filing for me?

Where Coddan is authorised to make the relevant filing and the code is supplied through an agreed secure process, Coddan may use it for that filing. Do not send it through a general enquiry.

Is it safe to give the code to an authorised filer?

Companies House guidance permits sharing with someone filing on your behalf. Limit access to a properly authorised filer and the specific agreed filing.

What if I cannot find the code?

Check the Companies House account and relevant email according to the route used. If an ACSP verified you, contact it to confirm the email address supplied.

What if the code or date of birth does not match?

Check that the correct code was entered for the correct person. An incorrect date of birth or ACSP-supplied detail may need to be corrected before the identity can be connected.

What if my code has been shared or compromised?

Contact Companies House. Its current guidance says it can send a new code by email and cancel the previous code.

Does providing the code admit me as an LLP member?

No. Admission depends on the LLP agreement or agreement with the existing members and the real underlying event. The code confirms completed identity verification for the role process.

Does providing the code create PSC status?

No. PSC status arises from the applicable ownership or control conditions. Verification and code use do not decide whether those conditions are met.

Does the code correct an inaccurate record?

No. An inaccurate member, PSC or personal-detail record requires the appropriate filing, correction or official route.

What information should I provide?

Provide the LLP, individual, capacities, relevant dates, verification route, code-access position and any error or mismatch. Do not include the actual Personal Code in a general enquiry.

What affects the work, cost and timing?

The number of LLPs and roles, code access, matching information, any record difference and the incorporation, filing or corrective work requested all matter. Code reuse alone is not automatically another verification purchase.

Connect the right individual to the right LLP role

Tell Coddan which LLP, individual, role and event are involved and how verification was completed. We can help identify the correct code-use process and the LLP work that still remains separate.

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What happens after identity verification?

You cannot find the code

You do not know where to use it

You hold several roles

The connection does not work

What is your Companies House Personal Code?

Personal to the individual

Normally retained and reused

Not an LLP credential

Not authority to act

Six separate stages—not one automatic result

How will you receive or find the code?

GOV.UK One Login

Verification through an ACSP

Where must the code be provided?

If you are both an LLP member and PSC

Member use

PSC use

Using one code for several LLPs or roles

Verify once

Reuse the same code

Provide it separately

Complete each event

Corporate members, RLEs and other connections

Corporate member

RLE

Officer or beneficial owner

Current, transitional and future position

Member and PSC code use

Individual and role-specific dates

Corporate and general-filer requirements

Current PSC timing in brief

The free route remains available

Free Companies House verification

Separately agreed Coddan work

What Coddan can coordinate

Identify the person and event

Confirm verification and access

Separate member and PSC uses

Coordinate authorised filings

Identify an apparent mismatch

Direct the unresolved problem

Where Coddan’s supported verification route fits

Keep your Personal Code safe

Authorised filing use

No general enquiries

Shared or compromised code

What if the code does not match?

Code entered incorrectly

Date of birth differs

ACSP-supplied details differ

Wrong role process

Underlying filing is inaccurate

Role or authority is disputed

How we identify the correct next step

Identify the person and LLP

Separate the roles

Confirm verification and access

Check the matching information

Provide the code correctly

Complete the LLP work

What information should you provide?

The LLP and event

The individual

Every affected capacity

Verification route

Code access

Relevant dates

Mismatch or message

Filing support