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Insolvency

Asked by Sarah PochinReform UKDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 14 July 2026UIN 15141

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many businesses entered insolvency in each region of England in each of the last five years.

Answered by Blair McDougall

This information is available in Table 1a of the Insolvency Service’s Business Insolvency Demography official statistics, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/business-insolvency-demography-2015-to-2025.

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