Everything a buyer usually asks us for, on one page
Why this page exists
Below are the answers a supplier check normally needs: the registered business behind the trading name, the insurance and certifications we hold, what becomes of anything you hand over for a job, and what we will not do. Where we do not hold something, this page says so rather than leave the field vague. If you need a document that is not here, ask, and we'll either send it or tell you we can't.
The registered business behind the trading name
Hesketh & Son is a trading name. Behind it sits Daniel Hesketh International, a Norwegian enkeltpersonforetak, the Norwegian form for a business registered to one named owner. Its organisation number is 996 936 619, held at the Brønnøysund Register Centre, the Norwegian companies register. The number is public, so you can check it there before you take our word for anything else on this page.
Registered address: Vitaminveien 26, 0483 Oslo, Norway. Correspondence address in the UK: 29 Oatlands Drive, Harrogate HG2 8JT.
There is no UK-registered company and no Companies House number. You would establish that in five minutes, so you may as well read it here. There is no VAT or MVA registration either, so our invoices carry no VAT and there is nothing on them for you to reclaim; the UK reverse charge applies on your side, and for a VAT-registered client it is net-nil. Clause 8 of our terms of engagement sets that out in full.
Our terms of engagement run under English law, and the courts of England and Wales hear any dispute arising from them. For a UK buyer, that means recourse sits in a UK court, not a Norwegian one.
Professional indemnity insurance
We do not hold professional indemnity cover at the date on this page, and we are not going to write around that. What it means for you depends on which side of the table you are sitting on.
For public-sector selection, the standard selection questionnaire used across UK above-threshold procurement asks a supplier to confirm whether it already has, or can commit to obtain prior to the commencement of the contract, the levels of cover the buyer has indicated. The Cabinet Office guidance behind that question is explicit that it is not appropriate at the selection stage to insist on evidence that cover already exists. We answer in exactly those terms: cover is not in place, and we commit to obtain the indicated levels before a contract starts.
For a private buyer whose supplier gate requires a certificate in hand at first contact, we can't clear that gate today, and you would rather hear it at the first email than at the fourth.
Until cover binds, clause 11 of our terms caps our total liability for any one job at the fees you have paid us for that job. When cover is in place we expect to move that cap up to the level of the cover.
Certifications, data and confidentiality
Two certifications get asked about most, and we hold neither: ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials. If one of them is non-negotiable in your own process, raise it at the first conversation and you'll get a straight yes or no rather than a hopeful maybe. There is no ICO data-controller registration in place either. That registration would cover how we keep our own client records, not the material a client hands us for a live job, which is governed either by a confidentiality clause we both sign or by a data processing agreement.
What is in place: a mutual confidentiality clause inside our terms of engagement, signed before you send us anything, and a data processing agreement where the material you send includes personal data, which UK GDPR Article 28 requires. How your own files are stored, kept and deleted is set out in our Data Handling and Confidentiality Statement. How this website handles visitors is a separate question, answered in our privacy policy. Both are linked below.
If your questionnaire asks whether artificial intelligence was used and how the output was checked, we answer that in full on How we work, in the same words for every buyer.
What we will not do, and where it is written
Our stated exclusions are published, not kept in a drawer. The full list, with the reasoning behind each one, is on How we work. It covers what we will not claim, what work we will not take, and how we will not charge.
This page is current as of the date shown below. If a due diligence questionnaire asks something it doesn't answer, write to hello@heskethandson.com and a named person will answer it.
Last checked: 2026-08-17