Consultation outcome

Insolvency statistics: methodology

• From: The Insolvency Service
• Published: 29 May 2015
• Last updated: 29 July 2015 — See all updates

This consultation has concluded

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Insolvency statistics consultation response

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Detail of outcome

On 29 October 2015, we will implement the following changes:

• Count company insolvencies in the period they began, rather than when they were registered at Companies House.
• Estimate the number of insolvencies in the latest period by extrapolating from partial data.
• Provide a comparable time series back to 2008 initially, and further back as resources allow.
• Publish statistics on administrative receiverships, but not on other receivership appointments.

Feedback received

Consultation feedback

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Detail of feedback received

Feedback detail: We received two responses, from the Pension Protection Fund and the British Property Federation.

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Original consultation

Summary

Proposals to change the methods for statistics on company insolvencies

This consultation ran from
9:30am on 29 May 2015 to 11:59pm on 29 June 2015

Consultation description

The Insolvency Service’s statistics team has reviewed the method used to count the number of company insolvencies, and identified some weaknesses.

This consultation contains proposals for changing the methods, and invites views on revisions and the length of historic data required.

This consultation also contains proposals to change statistics on receiverships, to break them down into insolvent and non-insolvent receiverships.

Documents

Insolvency statistics: changes to the method for statistics on company insolvencies

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Published 29 May 2015
Last updated 29 July 2015 + show all updates

1. 29 July 2015

   Feedback and response published

2. 29 May 2015

   First published.