Investigate UK PSC ingest issue where people are getting very recent dates as birth dates

[StephenAbbott]

While testing queries using the Datasette instance connected to the Register, we've spotted an issue where a number of individuals are being given very recent birth dates so we need to check if there is a mapping error happening here.

Take the example of 'Umar Mukhtar Ismail'. Here is a search on Companies House: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search?q=Umar+Mukhtar+Ismail

There seem to be two people with that name and the same address: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/jdyknQBCOBKkhahF-RQ8lHviQCk/appointments https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14185951/persons-with-significant-control

And it looks like Umar entered his details, put a recent date in the birth date field rather than his date of birth, realised his mistake five days later and then deleted himself/reentered his details: https://register.openownership.org/search?q=Umar+Mukhtar+Ismail

Any way that we can prevent this from coming through in the UK PSC data? Or just need to get them to do better verification checks on dates?

[StephenAbbott]

As discussed in this Twitter thread, there is the alternative possibilities that very young children are being listed as beneficial owners. Needs more investigation