Established under the Misrepresentation of Prosperity Act 2021. The Register lists every person convicted of a prosperity offence who remains subject to notification requirements. It exists to protect the public. It is updated within three days of any notified change and within five days of any detected one.
The Register was established following the case of a man who was not a billionaire, and who had never said that he was, but who had arranged his life so that everyone who met him would go away and say it for him. The court found that this arrangement constituted a representation, that the representation was false, and that the resulting enrolments — 411 places on a programme titled The Sovereign Path, at £2,497 — were made by persons who believed they were buying proximity to a billionaire, when they were in fact buying proximity to a man in a rented jacket.
The Court of Appeal upheld the conviction and made one observation in passing, which is now carved above the door of the Office: the representation does not become true because the buyer wanted it to be.
The Register is public. Any member of the public may search it, free of charge, without giving a reason. The Office is aware of what the public does with it. The public has been doing it anyway, at scale, since long before the Register formalised the process, and the Office considers formalisation a hygiene measure.
| Section | Offence | Maximum period |
|---|---|---|
| s.1(1) | Misrepresentation of prosperity. Stating, publishing, or permitting to be inferred a net worth the subject does not hold and cannot produce evidence of. | 10 years |
| s.1(2)(b) | Misrepresentation by recurrence. The same claim made on more than thirty occasions, at which point it is treated as a business model rather than a lie. | 7 years |
| s.1(3)(c) | The physique provision. Presentation of a result without the apparatus of the result. The drafting committee argued about this section for eleven months and kept it. | 2 years |
| s.1(4) | Aggravated misrepresentation. Committed in the presence of a vulnerable audience, defined in the Act as 'a sales team', 'a mastermind', or 'anyone who has paid a deposit'. | 7 years |
| s.2(1)(a) | Misrepresentation for profit. Any false claim made in the course of selling access to the claimant, his methods, his mindset, or his morning. | 10 years |
| s.3(2) | Failure to notify. The subject was required to tell the Office and did not. This is the only offence on the Register that consists entirely of silence. | 5 years |
Defences of 'aspiration', 'manifestation', and 'the number was where I was heading' were raised in committee and are all excluded by s.1(5), which states that the defence of intending to become the thing claimed was considered, tested against the enrolment figures, and removed.
Every person on the Register is assessed by the Panel and placed in one of three tiers. The tier determines the notification period, the verification schedule, and whether the subject's full record is published. Tier is reviewed annually. Subjects may apply to be re-tiered. The application is free. Of the 2,417 persons on the Register, 2,417 are aware of the fee.
Subjects whose misrepresentation was made for status rather than profit, and whose audience is assessed as capable of recovering. Notification period of 24 months. Subject to annual verification and to the standard notification requirements.
Subjects whose misrepresentation was made for profit, or in the presence of a vulnerable audience, or both. Notification period of five years. Subject to six-monthly verification.
Subjects whose misrepresentation was organised, repeated, and monetised at scale, and who continue to present a risk of re-offence upon release of a new product. Notification period of ten years, renewable. Subject to quarterly verification and to publication at full record.
The full Register holds 2,417 persons. What follows is the published extract: those subjects whose risk assessment directs publication, and a selection of entries the Office considers instructive. Entries are shown in the form they appear in the public schedule. Where a subject is published at full record, the record is linked.
Notified address: Solihull
Photographed entering a Gulfstream G650 that is let out for stills work by the hour, with a two-hour minimum and a cleaning deposit. Sold 1,143 places on a course whose Module 6 is Module 2 in a different accent.
Notified address: Ipswich
Sold four hundred places on a 'mastermind' priced at £2,000. The mastermind is a WhatsApp group. The admin is the mastermind.
Notified address: Wakefield
Claimed nine hundred consecutive 4am rises. Verified: six. Of the six, two preceded flights, one preceded a plumber, and one was disputed by the subject's own conservatory.
Notified address: Chelmsford
Sold her first company 'for eight figures'. The company invoiced £142,000 across six years, including VAT. The figure of eight is reachable only in pence.
Notified address: Barnsley
Posted a boarding pass with the surname obscured and the fare visible. The fare was £61.40. The flight was Ryanair. The post was captioned 'doors off, wheels up'.
Notified address: Grimsby
Posted a physique photograph captioned 'just keep showing up', omitting fourteen months of preparation, one coach, and a girlfriend who did the food scales.
Notified address: Wrexham
Claimed to have made 'six figures in a weekend'. The weekend is specified. The figures are not.
Notified address: Mansfield
Described a rented penthouse as 'the office'. The office is in Telford. The penthouse is rented by the hour from the same aviation photography company as ref FLX-2023-0119, which does not let penthouses and has asked how its name is involved.
Notified address: —
The subject deleted his account, at which point the offence ceased. The Office notes that the offence and the subject were the same thing. Re-offence is considered likely on a new account, which the Office will find, because it always does.
A person subject to the notification requirements must notify the Office of the following, within three days of the change taking effect. The requirements apply wherever the subject is in the world. The Office has arrangements with the authorities of no other country and finds this has not yet mattered.
The Register is public and its contents are disclosable. There is no restriction on what a member of the public does with an entry: it may be shown to an employer, a lender, a group chat, a parent, or a fiancée. This is deliberate. The Office examined whether disclosure should be limited and concluded that limited disclosure would convert the Register from a public protection measure into a private one, and that the subject's protection lies not in concealment but in the accuracy of the record. The record is accurate. That is the whole of the subject's comfort, and the Office recommends the subject not examine it too closely.
Members of the public should note three things. First, an entry is a conviction, not an opinion; the Office has been sued for less and has never lost, which it attributes to the record being accurate. Second, removal from the Register is possible and happens; a person who is not on the Register is either not an offender, or has completed the notification period, or has deleted his account, at which point the offence and the offender being the same thing, the Register is considered to have resolved itself. Third, the Register does not accept anonymous tips. It receives several hundred a week regardless. They are read. Some of them are already entries.
Yes. Search by name. If your neighbour is on the Register under a name your neighbour does not use in daily life, that is itself a notification breach, and you should report it, and the Office will act on it, and your neighbour will know it was you, because the Office does not accept anonymous reports and does not conceal the provenance of the ones it receives. The Office has considered whether this suppresses reporting. It has concluded that it does, and that this is efficient.
The notification period expires, the subject applies for removal, and the Panel considers the application in light of the subject's compliance history. Removals are granted. The subject's record is then moved to the archive, which is not published, not indexed, and retained. The Office is required by the Act to retain the archive forever. The Office has read the section again and it does say forever.
They may be under investigation. They may have been acquitted. They may own the Lamborghini. The Office keeps a watchlist, and the watchlist is one name longer than most people expect, and shorter than the comment sections suggest. The Office would caution against writing the name in the comments. Not for the commenter's legal protection — for the commenter's records.
The Office has received this question forty-one times, usually in the subject's own voice. The question is referred to the Panel. The Panel has asked that the Office stop forwarding it.
You will have been notified in writing. You may appeal the tier, the conditions, or the publication decision. Appeals are heard by the Panel, which is the same Panel that set the tier, sitting with one additional member. The additional member is real and has voted independently on every occasion, which the Office records here because the subject's solicitor has asked, twice, in writing.
You may not appeal the conviction itself through this Office. That route is the courts. The courts have heard the defence of 'aspiration'. The courts have also heard the enrolment figures. The Office will not prejudice its position by commenting on which of these the courts found persuasive, and notes that it could not, because the enrolment figures are not a commentary.