Common questions.
What Gazette Search covers, how search and bulk screening work, and what it costs.
Product
What is Gazette Search?
A tool for finding and screening UK Gazette notices — corporate insolvency, personal insolvency and deceased-estate notices — by name, company number, postcode or case number, one at a time or by the thousand.
Where does the data come from?
The Gazette, the UK’s official public record, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Gazette Search is an independent service and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by The Gazette or the UK government.
Which notice types are covered?
Corporate insolvency, personal insolvency, and deceased estates. 195,792 notices indexed, current to 12 September 2026.
How current is the data?
The database refreshes nightly against the official feed, so new notices appear within a day of publication.
Searching
How do I search?
By person or company name, Companies House company number, UK postcode, or court case number. Search a single record, or upload a list and screen the whole thing at once.
What is bulk screening?
Upload a CSV, an Excel file, or paste a list — up to 50,000 identifiers per run — and every one is checked against current Gazette notices in a single pass.
What do I get back for a match?
Structured fields, not just notice text: practitioner or executor contact details, case numbers, courts, and claim-deadline dates where the notice carries one.
Can I export results?
Yes. Every result set exports to CSV — matched records and the clean names that had no match, so you can see exactly what was checked.
Pricing
Do I have to pay to search?
No. Searching is free and unlimited. You only pay to unlock the full details of a search that finds something — one credit per search, however many notices it returns. A search that finds nothing never costs anything.
How do I buy credits?
Create a free account, then buy a credit pack that fits how often you search. No subscription is required to get started.