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In our Winter newsletter we look at how insolvency forms are changing, welcome our newly appointed chairman, directors and criminal enforcement team, and put the spotlight on our work with the Home Office to disqualify the d…
Corporate and personal insolvency statistics for 2016 have been published.
From 6 April 2017, as part of the changes introduced by the Insolvency (England & Wales) Rules 2016, all statutory forms relating to insolvency procedures will be withdrawn.
We are aware that people are receiving emails with the subject line of Company Investigations Inquiry Notice.
Credit, debt and insolvency specialist Stephen Allinson has been appointed chairman of the Insolvency Service Board.
We have resolved the IT issue. All our services have returned to normal.
We are working to fix a fault affecting the Insolvency Enquiry Line.
This news article provides a table indicating the destination of the provisions in the 1986 rules
The new rules which will guide insolvency practice from April 2017 have been published.
In our summer stakeholder newsletter we provide updates on insolvency service fees, tackling pension scams, the review of the corporate insolvency framework, our new complaints procedure, measuring customer satisfaction and …
Our chief executive Sarah Albon, opening Insolvency Live!, reviewed the past year and looked ahead to 2016/17 – including the introduction of the new insolvency rules, changes to Official Receiver fees and lessons learned fr…
Our inaugural stakeholder event, Insolvency Live! was held on 28 July 2016. Find out how it went.
Two companies that sold dubious oil investment products to members of the public in the UK have been wound-up in the High Court.
The fees charged to apply for bankruptcy and company insolvency are changing from 21 July 2016.
On the 30th June 2016, the Official Receiver’s Lloyds bank account will close. Please amend your records to reflect the new account details.
How to claim redundancy as a former BHS employee.
All the available places for our inaugural stakeholder event, Insolvency Live! on 28 July 2016 in London, have now been allocated. You can join the waiting list for the event.
We will stop publishing advertising disqualification orders obtained in Scotland in the Edinburgh Gazette from 1 June 2016.
The Insolvency Service disqualified more than 1,200 company directors and wound up 131 companies in the public interest in 2015/16.
Business Secretary Sajid Javid has instructed the Insolvency Service to fast-track its investigation into BHS.
First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government
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