The Insolvency Service
Service
- Search the Individual Insolvency Register
- Contact an official receiver
- Find an insolvency practitioner
- Make a complaint to the Insolvency Service
- Search the register of disqualified company directors
- Investigations and enforcement
- Declaring bankruptcy or being made bankrupt
- Company director disqualification
- Redundancy payments and your rights if your employer is insolvent
- Guidance on debt relief options, company liquidation, investigation and enforcement
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The Insolvency Service is launching a new academic research and technical conference and we’re inviting interested parties to submit papers.
New legislation to target company directors who dissolve their businesses and leave staff or taxpayers out of pocket.
A new Chair and three new non-executive board members have been appointed to the Insolvency Service Board, providing strategic leadership to the agency.
The IVA Standing Committee has published a new version of the IVA protocol, providing updated regulatory standards to insolvency practitioners, creditors and debt advice sector.
As a result of government instructions to stay at home we have changed the way we deliver our services.
Our colleague Jonathan writes about why he joined the Insolvency Service LGBT+ Network and became an active LGBT+ Ally.
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What The Insolvency Service does
We are a Government agency that helps to deliver economic confidence by supporting those in financial distress, tackling financial wrongdoing and maximising returns to creditors.
the Insolvency Service is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy.
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- Insolvency practitioner sanctions: Robert Cooksey 17 March 2021
- Insolvency practitioner sanctions: Christopher Stirland 11 March 2021
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Contact the Insolvency Service
Insolvency Service helpline
Insolvency Service helpline
0300 678 0015
For information about the insolvency process contact the Insolvency Service helpline. The helpline is open 9am to 5pm Monday to Thursday, and 9am to 3pm on Friday.
We can give you information about processes administered or regulated by the Insolvency Service. This includes bankruptcy, debt relief orders and company liquidations.
We cannot give you: legal or financial advice, information on specific insolvency cases, information or advice about other government departments or information about redundancy payments.
If you are contacting about an existing bankruptcy or compulsory company liquidation case, use our ‘contact an official receiver’ guidance.
Redundancy Payments
Telephone
0330 331 0020
Contact about claims for redundancy, loss of notice pay, holiday pay, arrears of wages, protective award payments and lost pension contributions.
The helpline is open Monday to Thursday 9am to 5pm, and Friday 9am to 3pm
Online Claims Service: https://www.gov.uk/claim-redundancy
Investigations and Enforcement Services
Office currently closed during the coronavirus pandemic.
Please contact via website.
United Kingdom
Telephone
0300 678 0017
The Insolvency Service Investigations and Enforcement Services (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/insolvency-service-investigations-and-enforcement-what-we-do-our-outcomes-and-complaints) are responsible for investigating serious financial misconduct in companies and individuals who are subject to bankruptcy or debt relief orders.
Our independent Legal Services Directorate (https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/insolvency-service-legal-services-directorate) is the lead enforcement agency for insolvency related fraud and associated corporate misconduct.
Head office address
United Kingdom
Telephone:
020 7637 1110
Estate Accounts and Scanning
Office currently closed during the coronavirus pandemic.
Please contact by email only.
United Kingdom
Press Office
United Kingdom
Media Manager
0303 003 1743
This service is for journalists only. For any other queries, please contact the Insolvency Enquiry Line.
For all media enquiries outside normal working hours, please contact the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Press Office on 020 7215 1000.
Breathing Space
This service is for money advisers who need advice about the breathing space service.
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Office currently closed during the coronavirus pandemic.
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