Authorisation being cancelled, but in an insolvency process
This firm is under the control of insolvency practitioners and may have stopped taking on new business. If you are or were a customer, deal with the appointed office holders rather than the firm.
- No FCA actions
- Accounts filed up to 31 December 2024
- Company: in liquidation
- Accounts are overdue at Companies House
- Confirmation statement is overdue at Companies House
What the FCA says
ATTENTION - Firm in an insolvency process
This firm is in an insolvency process. It is under the control of the appointed insolvency office holder(s) and may have stopped taking on new business. It has to continue to meet our standards in line with its regulatory status, including when dealing with its customers. If you are/were a customer check how this affects you with the firm or the appointed insolvency office holder(s).
Website, phone number and address
Compare these against whatever you were given. Scammers clone real firm names and reference numbers but use their own phone number and website, so a detail that does not match the register is the clearest warning sign there is.
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No website on the FCA register
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No phone number on the FCA register
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Address
Duncan Raggett of AAB Business & Tax Advisory LLP, 81 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3ES, United Kingdom
In the full report: 1 background check
- Who else gives the postcode EH2 3ES
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- DXHI Trading name: A name it trades under now.
Past FCA permissions and consumer protection
- In an insolvency processMoney the firm held is returned through the appointed office holders, which takes time and can fall short. The FSCS covers eligible claims up to its limits, and the Ombudsman can still look at a complaint.
Show FCA detail (1 permission)
- Credit Broking
FCA disciplinary action and complaints
No FCA disciplinary action.
The Financial Ombudsman Service only publishes complaint figures for firms with 30 or more new complaints in six months, so there are none here for this firm.
Companies House record
The company behind the firm: its status, age, registered office and directors.
Concerns on the company record
- Companies House records this company in liquidation.
- Accounts are overdue at Companies House.
- Confirmation statement is overdue at Companies House.
- This company has insolvency history on record.
- Company number
- SC667189 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Liquidation
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 13 July 2020 (6 years old)
- Registered office
- 81 George Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH2 3ES
- Nature of business
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- Other building completion and finishing (SIC 43390)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Thomas Stephen | Director | Oct 1995 | 21 Oct 2021 | 4 other companies |
| Shaun Paul Brown | Director | May 1995 | 1 Sep 2023 | 1 other company |
Other companies run by these 2 directors
A firm is run by people, and their other companies are their track record: what they built, what closed, and anything that failed. It is the check most people never think to make.
- other companies
- 5
- closed down
- 3
- still active
- 2
In the full report: all 5 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 2 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- All 3 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£392k
+101% from £195k
Cash at bank
£193k
+254% from £54.4k
Employees (average)
12
+140% from 5
Owed within a year
£534k
+12% from £476k
Its next accounts are overdue at Companies House.
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 5 years of accounts
- Every year from 2021 to 2024
- The chart, over every year
- Every filed figure, year by year
About these figures
- Turnover
- Money taken from sales in the year, before any costs.
- Profit before tax
- What was left after the year’s costs, before corporation tax. A minus figure is a loss.
- Net assets, or total equity
- Everything the company owns minus everything it owes. A minus figure means it owes more than it owns.
- Total assets and total liabilities
- Everything the company owns, and everything it owes, on the last day of the year. The gap between them is its net assets.
- Cash at bank
- Money in the company’s accounts on the last day of the year.
- Owed within a year, owed after a year
- Debts and bills due in the next twelve months, and those due later.
There is no turnover or profit: small companies do not have to publish them.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company SC667189. Every figure is as filed, apart from total assets and total liabilities, which are added up from filed figures. Nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Dx Home Improvements’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2023
24 April 2023
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Applied to cancel its FCA authorisation
FCA register
2021
21 October 2021
- Board replaced: its only director left and a new director took over
- David Thomas Stephen became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)
- David Thomas Stephen gave up control
Companies House
2020
13 July 2020
- Incorporated at Companies House
- David Thomas Stephen took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 17 events
- All 17 events in its history (7 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 6
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- 5 other companies its directors have run, named
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- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 17 events in its history
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk