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- 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
- Your rights if your employer is insolvent
- Guidance on debt relief options, company liquidation, investigation and enforcement
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News story
Goodbye GSi: Insolvency Service email addresses are changing
The Government Secure Intranet (GSi) network is being phased out across government. The Insolvency Service will remove ‘.gsi’ from email addresses before the deadline of 31 March 2019.
News story
Layezy Racing Owners Club: information for creditors
How to register as a creditor if you are owed money.
Press release
Property developer behind incomplete football stadium banned
Property developer who received millions in council funding to redevelop a football stadium has been banned from running companies for 10 years.
News story
Customer satisfaction survey
The research agency Populus is conducting our annual Customer Satisfaction Survey and will be contacting a sample of customers over February and March 2019.
News story
Patisserie Holdings PLC in administration: information for employees
How to apply for redundancy pay, wages owed, holiday pay and statutory notice pay.
Press release
Protect your pension pots from investment scams and negligent trustees
The Insolvency Service is warning people to guard their pension savings from investment scammers and negligent trustees.
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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 enquiry line
Telephone
0300 678 0015
For information about the insolvency process contact the Insolvency Enquiry Line during office hours. Open 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday except Wednesday 10am to 5pm. We can give you general information about: insolvency, what official receivers do and where you can go to get the information or advice you need.
We can’t give you: legal or financial advice, information on specific insolvency cases, information or advice on matters directly relating to other government departments.
Redundancy Payments
Birmingham
B2 2LX
United Kingdom
Telephone
0330 331 0020
Contact Redundancy Payments during office hours. Open 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday except Wednesday 10:30am to 5pm. Contact about claims for redundancy, pay in lieu of notice, holiday pay, arrears of wages, protective award payments and lost pension contributions.
Online Claims Service: https://www.gov.uk/claim-redundancy
Investigations and Enforcement Services
The Insolvency Service
4th, Floor Cannon House
18 Priory Queensway
Birmingham
B4 6FD
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. These powers to investigate are civil and not criminal.
Our independent Criminal Enforcement Team (https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/insolvency-service-criminal-enforcement-team) is the lead criminal enforcement agency for insolvency related fraud and associated corporate misconduct.
Head office address
London
SW1P 2HT
United Kingdom
Telephone:
020 7637 1110
Estate Accounts and Scanning
Estate Accounts and Scanning
PO Box 16652
Birmingham
B2 2HR
United Kingdom
General enquiries
0121 698 4268
Press Office
4 Abbey Orchard Street
London
SW1P 2HT
United Kingdom
Media Manager
020 7637 6498
This service is for journalists only. For any other queries, please contact the Insolvency Enquiry line on 0300 678 0015.
For all media enquiries outside normal working hours, please contact the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Press Office on 020 7215 1000.
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Freedom of Information and Data Protection Act team
3rd Floor
Cannon House
18 Priory Queensway
Birmingham
B4 6FD
United Kingdom
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