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Company Insolvency Statistics Releases

Statistics on new company insolvencies in England and Wales, and related statistics for Scotland and Northern Ireland

In accordance with the plans announced following a user consultation, the monthly and quarterly insolvency statistics have been merged as of 26 April 2024, while retaining the monthly frequency.

The new monthly publications below contain some additional information that was previously only released quarterly, such as seasonally adjusted numbers and rates of insolvency per 10,000 companies.

Monthly individual insolvency statistics can be found on the individual insolvency statistics releases page.

Archived monthly publications prior to March 2024 can be found here.

Company Insolvency Statistics Releases

This statistics collection contains the Insolvency Service’s statistical releases on company insolvency (companies who are unable to pay debts and enter liquidation; or enter administration or other company rescue process).

This page includes monthly statistical releases on company insolvencies in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Prior to March 2024 this was published only quarterly. This publication is designated as official statistics. The Office for Statistics Regulation are currently assessing whether this publication should receive accredited official statistics status.

A one-off publication on Corporate Insolvencies by Size, Age and Location is also included on this page. This experimental Official Statistics release broke down enterprise insolvencies by turnover, number of employees, age and region. This publication is not consistent with the Company Insolvency Statistics release as it is on an enterprise and not a company basis. There are currently no plans to publish an updated version of this.

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Updates to this page

Published 30 July 2019
Last updated 18 October 2024 + show all updates
  1. Updated for Company Insolvency Statistics, September 2024.

  2. Updated for August 2024

  3. Updated for July 2024

  4. Updated with June 2024 statistics

  5. Updated with May statistics

  6. April 2024 publication added

  7. New monthly publication for March 2024 added

  8. Statistics for Q4 2023 added. Notice added relating to change to format of insolvency statistics from April 2024.

  9. July to September 2023 (Q3) statistics added

  10. Quarterly statistics for Q2 2023 added. Added information about plans to merge the monthly and quarterly statistics.

  11. Added Q1 2023 statistics release

  12. Added Q4 2022 statistics release

  13. Q3 2022 statistics added, as well as information added about a user survey

  14. Added Q2 2022 statistics release

  15. Q1 2022 statistics added and updates made to main body of text on this page

  16. Added Q4 2021 statistics release

  17. Added Q3 2021 statistics release

  18. Added Q2 2021 statistics release

  19. Company Insolvency statistics for Q1 2021 were added

  20. October to December stats added

  21. Addition of new quarterly statistics

  22. Latest of quarterly statistics

  23. New edition of quarterly statistics

  24. New edition of quarterly statistics

  25. Addition of new quarterly company insolvency statistics

  26. First published.