I have always been a critic of Companies House and resigned from one of its Focus Groups .But its lack of regulation is little to with "de regulation". Companies House is mainly a database, it has never (effectively) regulated. Mind you,saying that, it is still more effective than almost all the Company Registars in the world where they hardly bother to regulate at all. One consequence of this is to breed some nasty little rackets in a number of things. We have seen people who are very vulnerable being preyed on by someone with multiple companies many of which do not submit accounts and are then just struck off. As when listing ends for whatever reasons any compliance issue ceases to be and there are no accounts it is impossible to trace either monies or activities of the person in question and associates. Inevitably, it is all done "on legal advice" without any reference to the actual law.