@revk if someone is asking for information that they already have or can already obtain then what they're updating may be the purposes to which they're permitted to use the information.
@revk I'm fairly sure that the Country is United Kingdom, and the Nation is Wales (guess who lives with a political scientist specialising in devolution?)
@jonnypencils@ahnlak@neil Fair enough, I have only been here a little over 2 years, not the 27 years since it vanished (my comment on '70s was actually wrong, that was when it was created?!)
@revk@ahnlak@neil Yes knew The Belmont. Not one of our regular haunts as it was a little outside of town and a bit stuffy for us cool kids, but yeah, went there a few times. I left Abergavenny around 1995 and moved to Nottingham - now live not that far away in Gloucestershire. I go back now and again.
Thanks for the tip - found the form in documents on-line, but it says to send back in pre-paid envelope, and does not state the address, and well, I don't have the envelope. Arrrg!
And 90% is stuff on Companies House. I mean they could at least have pre-filled all that stuff!
@revk earlier this year I applied for a job and was asked to restyle the contents of my CV into a form, plus 2 or 3 other bits of info. One bit of info was my NI number which is not required to apply for a job.
@revk Yes, frequently! I think they ask us to go through the full KYC procedure every two years at the moment.
Every time this procedure begins, they have forgotten all the information we gave them the previous time and have reverted to details that ceased being current around 20 years ago. They always reject the form and require us all to visit branches with documentation. (Not just the directors, some of the shareholders as well.)
@revk After the most recent go-around, they now refer to our company as "The Devonshire Arms" because there's a box on the form for "Trading as" that won't accept multiple values. (We currently have three sites.)
The form instructions say to put one name on the form and attach additional trading names in the supplementary information. That then appears to be ignored.
There doesn't appear to be an option for "just call the company by its name, dammit"!
@revk I've had a whole pile of hassle with this as I run a number of non-profits. I think they have to re-confirm details for every single business account to make sure they're not violating sanctions against Russia...
If you give them a call on the number on the letter I think that now goes to a helpful callcentre in Ireland (it used to go to a very unhelpful callcentre in India).
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