FOI22_23-085 - Payments made to employees by INSSRPS
Published 20 January 2023
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Our ref: FOI22/23-085
Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000
Thank you for your email of 24 October 2022 in which you requested the following from the Insolvency Service:
“Under the Freedom of Information Act, please confirm the total payments made to employees in the U.K. between 1st January 2022 and 30th September 2022 in respect of the following:
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a redundancy payment
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holiday pay
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outstanding payments like unpaid wages, overtime and commission
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money that would have earned working a notice period (‘statutory notice pay’)
by reference to the following types of insolvency across all sectors of the economy:
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administration
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liquidation
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bankruptcy
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receivership
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company voluntary arrangement
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individual voluntary arrangement
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debt relief order”
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 the requested information is included in the table below. We have collated the requested data but please note that this data is not usually held in this format, therefore, we have had to construct the data to provide you with this information.
Please note that these figures have been rounded to the nearest £1,000.
| # Redundancy Pay | Notice Pay | Holiday Pay | Arrears of Pay |
| Administration | £36,599,000 | £10,928,000 | £3,091,000 | £6,560,000 |
| Bankruptcy | £218,000 | £70,000 | £30,000 | £55,000 |
| CVA | £562,000 | £170,000 | £3,000 | £67,000 |
| IVA | £35,000 | £7,000 | £3,000 | £2,000 |
| Liquidation | £63,941,000 | £18,608,000 | £8,517,000 | £12,167,000 |
| Receivership | £2,000 | £0 | £1,000 | £0 |
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
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United Kingdom
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Kind regards
Information Rights Team
The Insolvency Service