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Insolvency Service Official Statistics

This page provides information about the Insolvency Service's official statistics, including details on what is available and when it is released.

The Insolvency Service sought views on proposed changes to Official Statistics publications during a consultation open from 16 May to 30 June 2023. We responded to this consultation on 28 July outlining the responses we received and describing the planned changes to Official Statistics.

The consultation included a proposal to discontinue the monthly and annual Insolvency Service Enforcement Outcomes publications. No respondents objected to the termination of this Official Statistics publication. The final edition of this publication was released on 11 August 2023. More details can be found on the Insolvency Service Enforcement Outcomes page.

In addition, the Insolvency Service will merge the monthly and quarterly insolvency statistics and make monthly statistics a permanent feature. The first release in this new format will be in either January or April 2024. The response to the consultation also describes planned changes to the content of these statistics, including additional information relating to individual insolvency.

The Insolvency Service is currently releasing monthly company and individual insolvency statistics for England & Wales and Northern Ireland, and monthly company statistics for Scotland, to provide more up to date information on insolvency volumes. These Monthly Insolvency Statistics are published two weeks in arrears of month end. Our other routine Official and National Statistics continue to be released as usual.

Official and National Statistics Publications

Publication schedule

Monthly Insolvency Statistics Releases

Individual Insolvency Statistics Releases

Our Individual Insolvency Statistics Releases include:

  • Quarterly Individual Insolvency National Statistics published at the end of January, April, July and October each year
  • Individual Insolvencies by Location, Age and Gender statistics published annually in March or April, and
  • Individual Voluntary Arrangement Outcomes and Providers statistics published annually in February or March.

Company Insolvency Statistics Releases

Our quarterly Company Insolvency National Statistics are published at the end of January, April, July and October each year.

Insolvency Service Enforcement Outcomes

The Insolvency Service Enforcement Outcomes official statistics were discontinued following the release of monthly tables on 11 August 2023.

To continue to meet user needs, management information tables covering key statistics on Insolvency Service enforcement outcomes are published monthly.

User Requested

Additional user-requested datasets in response to Freedom of Information requests can be found online, for example at Insolvency Service FOI responses: October to December 2021.

Policies and procedures

Details of policies and procedures relating to the production of Insolvency Service statistics, such as our revisions policy and seasonal adjustment methodology, can be found in our Policy and Procedure documents.

Contact us

Statistics team

Please contact by email only.

Archive statistics

  • The Accountant in Bankruptcy produces quarterly Official Statistics on company and individual insolvencies in Scotland, some of which are incorporated into the Insolvency Service’s quarterly Insolvency Statistics publication.

  • Companies House produces quarterly statistics on corporate insolvencies and dissolutions. It also produces annual statistics on the number of directors disqualified.

  • The Office for National Statistics produces annual statistics on business deaths in its Business Demography publication. These statistics relate to all registered businesses, whereas Insolvency Statistics relate to companies on the Companies House register.

  • The Ministry of Justice produces quarterly National Statistics on civil court insolvency petitions.

Policy and procedures

Published 14 July 2014
Last updated 11 September 2023 + show all updates
  1. Added link to new management information for Insolvency Service Enforcement Outcomes

  2. Updated with details of the response to the consultation on Official Statistics.

  3. Added an an update relating to the consultation on changes to Official Statistics, which closed on 30 June, including information about the termination of the Enforcement Outcomes statistics.

  4. Added link to consultation on changes to Insolvency Service Official Statistics

  5. Information added about user survey

  6. Updated text, including restructuring to make it clearer what is available and adding link to FOI request responses

  7. Added in information on COVID-19 and link to our new monthly statistics.

  8. Small update to lay out of the page

  9. Update to lay out of page

  10. Update of body to include statistics survey

  11. Insolvency Service Enforcement Outcomes Monthly data tables: January 2017 have been added.

  12. New statistics released

  13. Regional statistics added for 2015

  14. Monthly enforcement data tables have been added for October

  15. Insolvency Statistics July to September 2016

  16. September tables added

  17. Insolvency Service Enforcement Outcomes Monthly data tables for August added

  18. Insolvency Service Enforcement Outcomes Monthly data tables: July 2016 added

  19. Quarterly statistics - April to June 2016 have been added.

  20. Individual Insolvencies by location, age and gender, England and Wales 2015 has been added

  21. New documents added

  22. Insolvency Service Enforcement Outcomes (Experimental Statistics): July to September 2015, were added.

  23. Enforcement outcomes April to June 2015 published

  24. Added note on forthcoming change to statistical methods

  25. April to June official statistics added

  26. User engagement feedback added

  27. Added Insolvency Statistics: Methodology Consultation

  28. Minor textual changes, adding reference to experimental enforcement statistics.

  29. Insolvency Statistics: January to March 2015

  30. Statistics for October to December 2014 (Q4) have been added

  31. First published.