# Companies House API: List company directors > Lists a UK company's current and resigned directors, secretaries and other officers, found by company name, number or Companies House link. Unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Companies House. - Page: https://fous.com/methods/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/list-directors - Method: `find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/list_directors`, version 1 - Website: find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk - Returns: officer names, roles, appointment and resignation dates, nationality, occupation, residence, birth month and year, correspondence address, appointments link - Effect: read (it gets data and changes nothing) - Sign-in: none needed - Cost: 1 credit per completed run (1ยข with pay as you go); failed runs are free - Verified: Nov 2, 2026 ## Inputs | Field | Type | Required | In the run below | Description | |---|---|---|---|---| | `company` | string | yes | `"00445790"` | Company name, number, or Companies House company link, for example Tesco PLC. | | `max_results` | integer | no | `200` | Most officers to return, for example 50. Default 50. | | `include_resigned` | string | no | | Include former officers as well as current officers, for example yes. One of "yes", "no". Default "yes". | ## Output From a run on Oct 23, 2026, shortened. Its input: ```json { "company": "00445790", "max_results": 200 } ``` Its output: ```json { "officers": [ { "role": "Secretary", "full_name": "TAYLOR, Christopher Jon", "occupation": null, "nationality": null, "resigned_date": null, "appointed_date": "2025-04-14", "birth_month_year": null, "appointments_link": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/uJ_F_UGCbPiYELlJ_fHc-J_goqo/appointments", "country_of_residence": null, "correspondence_address": "Tesco House, Shire Park, Kestrel Way, Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom, AL7 1GA" }, { "role": "Director", "full_name": "BETHELL, Melissa", "occupation": null, "nationality": "British", "resigned_date": null, "appointed_date": "2018-09-24", "birth_month_year": "September 1974", "appointments_link": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/aqrS_F-2zIvSaMNtl1opqDV4-w0/appointments", "country_of_residence": "United Kingdom", "correspondence_address": "Tesco House, Shire Park, Kestrel Way, Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom, AL7 1GA" }, { "role": "Director", "full_name": "BODSON, Bertrand Jean Francois", "occupation": null, "nationality": "Belgian", "resigned_date": null, "appointed_date": "2021-06-01", "birth_month_year": "June 1975", "appointments_link": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/i4-DBrP10YuSc6pscv-b3MCQPQ8/appointments", "country_of_residence": "England", "correspondence_address": "Tesco House, Shire Park, Kestrel Way, Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom, AL7 1GA" } ], "company_link": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00445790", "company_name": "TESCO PLC", "company_number": "00445790" } ``` ## Run it From code, with a Fous API key in `FOUS_API_KEY`; the answer's `data` holds the output: ```bash curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"method":"find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/list_directors","input":{"company":"00445790","max_results":200}}' ``` From an AI agent connected to the Fous MCP server: its `run` with the same method and input. To connect one, give it `set up https://fous.com/SKILL.md`. ## Ask your agent - Who are the current directors of Tesco PLC? - List all officers of company number 00445790 including those who have resigned, showing their appointment dates. - Can you pull up the board members and secretaries for Rolls-Royce Holdings plc, limited to the 20 most recent entries? - Show me the directors ever appointed to Monzo Bank Limited on company-information.service.gov.uk, with their nationality and occupation. - Find the current officers only of the company 07228509 and tell me each person's role and correspondence address. ## Input schema ```json { "type": "object", "required": [ "company" ], "properties": { "company": { "type": "string", "description": "Company name, number, or Companies House company link, for example Tesco PLC." }, "max_results": { "type": "integer", "default": 50, "maximum": 200, "minimum": 1, "description": "Most officers to return, for example 50." }, "include_resigned": { "enum": [ "yes", "no" ], "type": "string", "default": "yes", "description": "Include former officers as well as current officers, for example yes." } } } ``` ## Output schema ```json { "type": "object", "required": [ "company_name", "company_number", "company_link", "officers" ], "properties": { "officers": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "full_name", "role", "appointed_date", "resigned_date", "nationality", "occupation", "country_of_residence", "birth_month_year", "correspondence_address", "appointments_link" ], "properties": { "role": { "type": "string", "description": "Officer role in words." }, "full_name": { "type": "string", "description": "Officer's full name as shown on the register." }, "occupation": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "Occupation, when shown." }, "nationality": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "Nationality, when shown." }, "resigned_date": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "format": "date", "description": "Resignation date, or null for a current officer." }, "appointed_date": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "format": "date", "description": "Exact appointment date, or null when only an appointed-before date is shown." }, "birth_month_year": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "Month and year of birth as shown." }, "appointments_link": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "Link to the officer's appointments page." }, "country_of_residence": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "Place or country of residence, when shown." }, "correspondence_address": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "Registered correspondence address." } } }, "description": "Officers, current first, followed by resigned." }, "company_link": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "Company page link." }, "company_name": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "Registered company name." }, "company_number": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "Registered company number." } } } ``` ## See more - [Companies House API: Search companies](https://fous.com/methods/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search-companies.md): Searches the UK Companies House register by company name and returns each company's status, type, incorporation date and registered office address, in result order. - [Companies House API: List company filing history](https://fous.com/methods/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/list-filing-history.md): Lists a UK company's Companies House filings, newest first, with date, form code, type, description, page count and PDF link. 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