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Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 20 November 2024UIN 14543

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many companies were (a) registered and (b) liquidated on each day in 2024.

Answered by Justin Madders

Official statistics on company incorporation and liquidation are published quarterly. These are made publicly available online by Companies House. We have excerpted and reproduced the relevant figures for your convenience below:

Date

Incorporations

Total Liquidations

2024 Jan-Mar

244,717

7,622

2024 Apr-Jun

217,815

9,115

2024 Jul-Sep

191,683

8,658

The most recent complete datasets can be found here:

Incorporated companies in the UK July to September 2024 - GOV.UK

Statistics for previous periods are available here.

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