FOI release

FOI 110 - Total amount banked for unclaimed dividends and expired cheques this financial year

Updated 2 February 2022

Our ref: FOI21/22-110

Date: 13th December 2021

Dear

Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000

Thank you for your email of 15th November 2021 in which you requested from the Insolvency Service: details of the total amount banked for unclaimed dividends and expired cheques this financial year.

Your request has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).

I can confirm the agency holds the information that you have requested and I have provided the answer to your question, split into Calendar Year and Financial Year, below:

1st January 2021 – December 2021

Total Amount of Credits into the Unclaimed Account – 4212

Total Sum of Credits into the Unclaimed Account - £17,014,915.03

1st April 2021 – December 2021

Total Amount of Credits into the Unclaimed Account – 3513

Total Sum of Credits into the Unclaimed Account - £11,958,661.40

If you are not satisfied with the response we have provided you and would like us to reconsider our decision by way of an internal review (IR), please contact our Information Rights Team at foi@insolvency.gov.uk or by post at:

Information Rights Team
The Insolvency Service
3rd Floor
Cannon House
18 Priory Queensway
Birmingham
B4 6FD
United Kingdom

You also have the right to contact the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) if you wish for them to investigate any complaint you may have in regards to our handling of your request. However, please note that the ICO is likely to expect an IR to have been completed in the first instance.

Kind regards

Information Rights Team

The Insolvency Service

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