Information on annual returns and accounts

Reference Case Number: FOI12197

Freedom of Information: Right to know request:

How many Friendly Societies are behind with their filing commitments as regards Annual Returns and Accounts?
How many Co-operatives and Community Benefits Societies are behind with their filing commitments as regards Annual Returns and Accounts?
What is the average number of years they are overdue?
How many of the entities are dissolved for non-filing each year?
How many of the entities face fines/enforcement for non-filing each year?

FCA response:

Our response is below.

Question 1
33

Question 2
1,170

Question 3
We do not hold the information you are seeking; this is because we do not record it.

Questions 4 and 5

The information you have asked for is publicly available and can be obtained from the Prosecutions and cancellations | FCA[1] page. For this reason, we are exempted from having to disclose it to you under section 21 (information reasonably accessible to the applicant by other means) of FOIA. For more information on why we are applying this exemption please see Annex A below.

Annex A

Section 21 (Information reasonably accessible to the applicant by other means)

We are not required to provide you with this publicly available information as it is accessible to you by other means.

FOIA states that information should be considered to be reasonably accessible to the applicant, if it is information which the FCA or any other person is obliged by or under any enactment to communicate (otherwise than by making the information available for inspection) to members of the public on request, whether free of charge or on payment.

To the extent that the information we hold is publicly available, we are exempt from the duty to release it under the section 21 of FOIA, as this is information which is accessible to you by other means.

As mentioned, the information you have asked for can be obtained from Prosecutions and cancellations | FCA[2] page.

Date of Release: 17/04/2025

Information on annual returns and accounts - April 2025

Freedom of Information: Right to know request:

FCA response:

Annex A

More information

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