Business and Finance

Business Link

Practical advice for business

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/

CBI

Lobbying organisation for UK business on national and international issues working with the UK government, international legislators and policy-makers to help UK businesses compete effectively.

http://www.cbi.org.uk/ndbs/staticpages.nsf/StaticPages/home.html/?OpenDocument

Companies House

Organisation whose functions are to incorporate and dissolve limited companies; examine and store company information delivered under the Companies Act and related legislation; and make this information available to the public. For company search click on webcheck.

http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

The Department brings together functions from the former Department of Trade and Industry, including responsibilities for productivity, business relations, energy, competition and consumers, with the Better Regulation Executive (BRE), previously part of the Cabinet Office.

http://www.berr.gov.uk/

Financial Reporting Council (FRC)

UK's independent regulator responsible for promoting confidence in corporate reporting and governance.

http://www.frc.org.uk/

Financial Services Authority

Independent body that regulates the financial services industry in the UK.

http://www.fsa.gov.uk/

Insolvency Service

Administers and investigates the affairs of bankrupts, of companies and partnerships wound up by the court, and establish why they became insolvent. Contains bankruptcy search.

http://www.insolvency.gov.uk/index.htm