To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills when his Department first provided notification of its decision to include e-filing options for limited liability partnerships in the WebFiling service at Companies House. (310066)

Companies House first set out Electronic Filing for Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) as a development objective in its 2009-10 Business Plan. This was published in April 2009 and is available on their website

www.companieshouse.gov.uk/about/pdf/businessPlan2009-10.pdf

The current project aims to allow e-filing by LLPs via the WebFiling service on the Companies House website as well as via the Software Filing service that allows submissions to be made direct from third party software. It aims to make initial e-filing options for LLPs available from spring 2010.