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FOI 96 - Request for information about Insolvencies in Scotland

Updated 2 February 2022

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Our ref: FOI21/22-096

Date: 19 November 2021

Dear

1. Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000

Thank you for your email of 27 October 2021 in which you requested from the Insolvency Service:

  1. How many investigations has the Insolvency Service in Scotland carried out since 1st January 2018 to date.
  2. In relation to 1 above, how many investigations resulted in the directors becoming disqualified.
  3. The operating budgets from 2018 to date for the Insolvency Service activities in Scotland.
  4. An annual report summarising the activities of the Insolvency Service in Scotland since 2018 to date.

Your request has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).

I can confirm the agency holds some of the information that you have requested and I have provided answers to those questions below:

  1. Please see table 1 of the attached annex 1. Please note that the figures relate to civil investigations for the purposes of obtaining a disqualification against a company director. The figures do not include investigations into live companies or criminal investigations.
  2. Please see table 2 of the attached annex 1. Please note that the figures relate to civil investigations for the purposes of obtaining a disqualification against a company director. The figures do not include investigations into live companies or criminal investigations.

The Insolvency Service does not hold or only partially holds the information you have requested in relation to the following:

  1. We do not hold budget data to this level of detail.
  2. We do not produce an annual report specifically regarding Scottish cases. Our annual reports can be found on GOV.UK by searching ‘Insolvency Service annual report’. I have provided further data in the attached annex 2 relating to civil investigations in Scottish cases for the years from 2018 to 2020 in case this is of interest to you.

Please note FOIA only applies to recorded information, it does not require public authorities to answer a question unless recorded information exists. Therefore, to answer a request FOIA does not oblige a public authority to create information if the requested information is not held.

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
3rd Floor
Cannon House
18 Priory Queensway
Birmingham
B4 6FD
United Kingdom

You also have the right to contact the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) if you wish for them to investigate any complaint you may have in regards to our handling of your request. However, please note that the ICO is likely to expect an IR to have been completed in the first instance.

Kind regards

Information Rights Team

The Insolvency Service

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