UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED

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  5 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

1. UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED 2013-03-13 → present
2. RCUK SHARED SERVICES CENTRE LIMITED 2007-08-01 → 2013-03-13

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

UK-adopted International Accounting Standards

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

The Comptroller and Auditor General

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, I have concluded that UK Shared Business Services Limited's use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work I have performed, I have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on UK Shared Business Services Limited's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Significant events

• “Successful go live of the SHARP Programme, in June 2025, having ramped up ever more support to implementation and testing.”
• “Announcement of Workday as the technology platform for Matrix Programme, enabling Neo Service delivery with a go-live anticipated in May 2026.”
• “Continued to enable a pipeline of Machinery of Government (MoG) changes resulting from the change in government in July 2024.”
• “Machinery of Government 2023 programme was completed taking the delivery tally to five new payrolls and final new financial ledgers created alongside numerous system changes as we onboarded new users to UKSBS systems.”
• “Successfully upgraded our on-prem Oracle estate to the latest version of E-Business Suite, a project planned and delivered in-house, to time and under budget.”
• “Recertified to the latest ISO 27001 accreditation in December 2024.”
• “The Board has welcomed a new independent Non-Executive Director and Audit Committee Chair following the departure of a long-serving independent NED at the end of their term.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

13

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

4

last 12 months

Officers resigned

5

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +9.8%

  £64,447,000 → £70,762,000

• Cash

  +178.4%

  £1,863,000 → £5,187,000

• Net assets

  -38.3%

  £1,823,000 → £1,124,000

• Employees

  +5%

  677 → 711

• Operating profit

  -4,766.7%

  £15,000 → -£700,000

• Profit before tax

  -4,760%

  £15,000 → -£699,000

• Wages

  +10.1%

  £23,748,000 → £26,144,000

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers