We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Emergency Alerts Test on Sunday 7 September, 3pm
This guidance is for approved Intermediaries applying for a DRO.
Appointing a new director to your limited company.
This page provides a full list of published guidance about the following processes administered or regulated by the Insolvency Service:
Help and guidance for limited company directors.
This guidance deals with the circumstances in which the Registrar of Companies may dissolve a company
Details on RP14 and RP14A upload
Think carefully before you borrow money for your company.
This is purely a bankruptcy procedure. Information on procedure and the official receiver's role in applications for annulment of the order.
The 2021 IVA Protocol should not be used after 30 June 2025 . These documents are for reference only.
Recovering sums due in respect of antecedent recoveries such as excessive pension contributions, misfeasance of directors, voidable dispositions and transactions defrauding creditors
Use the checklist when completing your application for financial assistance for making redundancy payments.
Distribution by means of a dividend or division of property
Detailed information about the restrictions on the re-use of company names, when a director can re-use a company name after insolvent liquidation, how to apply for permission to use a prohibited name and how to complain.
This chapter provides advice on dealing with pensions
Dealing with the affairs of a debtor who dies during the bankruptcy process or the estate of a deceased insolvent
This guide provides information on how insolvency practitioners are authorised and regulated in Great Britain
Discharge from bankruptcy, including suspending a bankrupt's period of discharge in cases of non-cooperation
Dealing with an insolvent's motor vehicle, including matters to be taken into account before the vehicle is sold
The code of ethics aims to help insolvency practitioners meet their professional and ethical obligations.
Information about the public register of bankruptcies, debt relief orders and individual voluntary arrangements
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).