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FOI019 – Annex A - Table 2
Updated 28 August 2025
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| Table 2: Company Insolvencies in all sectors, United Kingdom, 1 January 2015 to 30 April 2025 | |||||||||||||
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| Numbers in this table are based on the address on the Companies House register at the time of insolvency. | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| This is often the address of an insolvency practitioner handling the case and therefore it is not necessarily the region in which companies traded prior to insolvency. | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Bulk creditors' voluntary liquidations between 2016 and 2019 are included in this table. See the Section 16 part of the main response for more information. | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Source: Companies House | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set | Not set |
| Name | Code | Geography | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 to April |
| NORTH EAST | E12000001 | Region | 501 | 506 | 555 | 625 | 558 | 430 | 472 | 843 | 1,019 | 864 | 265 |
| NORTH WEST | E12000002 | Region | 2,159 | 2,081 | 2,328 | 2,552 | 2,984 | 2,143 | 2,449 | 4,159 | 4,658 | 4,828 | 1,590 |
| YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER | E12000003 | Region | 1,850 | 1,944 | 1,857 | 2,005 | 2,144 | 1,652 | 2,103 | 2,858 | 2,963 | 2,689 | 790 |
| EAST MIDLANDS | E12000004 | Region | 885 | 1,033 | 1,028 | 1,119 | 1,075 | 739 | 783 | 1,352 | 1,351 | 1,485 | 584 |
| WEST MIDLANDS | E12000005 | Region | 1,522 | 1,435 | 1,296 | 1,568 | 1,729 | 1,291 | 1,377 | 1,994 | 2,322 | 2,147 | 738 |
| EAST | E12000006 | Region | 1,121 | 1,133 | 1,190 | 1,273 | 1,275 | 1,023 | 1,447 | 2,452 | 2,543 | 2,371 | 751 |
| LONDON | E12000007 | Region | 3,344 | 5,043 | 5,931 | 4,924 | 4,030 | 2,885 | 3,069 | 4,775 | 5,730 | 5,277 | 1,625 |
| SOUTH EAST | E12000008 | Region | 1,641 | 1,586 | 1,574 | 1,683 | 1,756 | 1,320 | 1,170 | 1,908 | 2,498 | 2,240 | 824 |
| SOUTH WEST | E12000009 | Region | 888 | 909 | 903 | 993 | 1,009 | 783 | 828 | 1,222 | 1,388 | 1,233 | 379 |
| NORTHERN IRELAND | N99999999 | Country | 347 | 396 | 288 | 318 | 341 | 151 | 118 | 213 | 217 | 302 | 107 |
| SCOTLAND | S99999999 | Country | 948 | 1,038 | 854 | 980 | 1,027 | 643 | 753 | 1,062 | 1,234 | 1,236 | 397 |
| WALES | W99999999 | Country | 373 | 441 | 385 | 444 | 439 | 282 | 291 | 479 | 551 | 606 | 242 |
| Not set | Unknown | Not set | 267 | 261 | 209 | 214 | 172 | 82 | 67 | 90 | 140 | 140 | 173 |
| Total | Not set | Not set | 15,846 | 17,806 | 18,398 | 18,698 | 18,539 | 13,424 | 14,927 | 23,407 | 26,614 | 25,418 | 8,465 |