Business: Insolvency

Asked by Alison GriffithsConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 15 January 2025Answered 20 January 2025UIN 24356

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what data his Department holds on the number of involuntary business liquidations that have taken place each month of the last five years.

Answered by Justin Madders

The numbers of companies entering compulsory liquidation in each month since January 2019 are provided in monthly Official Statistics on company insolvency at Company insolvency statistics releases - GOV.UK and in the tables below.

England & Wales

	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
January	317	295	51	124	204	339
February	259	231	33	77	162	225
March	237	175	33	140	302	230
April	234	100	30	94	187	291
May	272	32	34	141	195	248
June	274	70	37	148	264	293
July	250	175	44	137	249	336
August	195	79	38	151	232	236
September	228	49	32	219	255	221
October	237	67	53	252	260	212
November	270	37	54	296	364	340
December	170	43	52	186	164	[x]

Source: Insolvency Service. [x] indicates not yet available

Scotland

	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
January	57	45	12	14	53	34
February	51	44	7	10	22	33
March	68	47	11	9	40	44
April	66	17	9	17	41	48
May	50	10	8	19	35	43
June	45	21	14	8	36	43
July	45	21	14	15	44	33
August	49	18	11	38	33	42
September	43	12	8	25	30	18
October	55	10	11	19	35	60
November	56	13	21	42	30	54
December	47	21	17	22	40	[x]

Source: Companies House. [x] indicates not yet available

Northern Ireland

	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
January	7	21	2	2	1	8
February	9	18	0	10	1	14
March	25	12	0	7	2	8
April	3	0	3	6	2	17
May	35	0	1	3	2	22
June	16	0	1	11	3	8
July	12	1	1	1	3	5
August	5	0	1	2	2	1
September	28	0	0	2	25	15
October	39	1	1	0	14	17
November	22	0	2	2	13	3
December	18	1	7	2	6	[x]

Source: Department for the Economy, Northern Ireland

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