FOI22_23-073 - DRO’s broken down by intermediaries 2020-2022
Published 20 January 2023
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Your ref: FOI22/23-073
Re: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request
Thank you for your email of 6 October 2022 in which you requested from the Insolvency Service:
“Please could you now supply the same data for the subsequent 2 years 20-21 and 21-22. If additionally you have the data on the first few months of this financial year, that would be very helpful.”
This is a follow up request to the email of 11 March 2021 in which you requested from the Insolvency Service:
“I would like information by the Competent Authority of the number of Approved DRO Intermediaries and the number of DROs made for each of the last three years 2018, 2019 and 2020”.
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 a table at Annex A with the data we hold for the 2020/21 and 2021/22 financial years, as well as the first 6 months of 2022/23.
Under section 16 of the Act (Advice and Assistance) you may find it useful to note:
Data on individuals that have entered insolvency are sourced from a live administrative system owned and managed by the Insolvency Service. The data used to compile this response were extracted from the live administrative system on a different date to the agency’s Quarterly Insolvency Statistics. In addition, DROs that were initially approved but later revoked are not included in these counts. This is different to the methodology used in the Official Statistics and totals may therefore not match those previously published.
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Yours sincerely,
Information Rights Team
The Insolvency Service