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Freight: Insolvency

Asked by Dr Al PinkertonLiberal DemocratDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 18 May 2026UIN 529

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the number of UK haulage firms operating internationally that have entered insolvency in each of the last ten years.

Answered by Blair McDougall

The Department does not hold information about whether UK haulage firms, or UK firms more generally, operated internationally prior to entering insolvency.

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