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This Data Usage Agreement to analyse vulnerable and overlapping debtors across a range of government departments and local authorities was approved and put in place in 2020.

• Updated: 19 October 2023

• Updated: 18 January 2023

Making someone bankrupt is one way to recover money owed to you – bankruptcy petition fees and download a guide to creditor bankruptcy petitions

• Overview

  You have to present a bankruptcy petition to a court if you want to…

• Prove you're owed £5,000 or more

  To make someone bankrupt you must be owed one of the following: at least…

• Check for other bankruptcy petitions

  You must check if the debtor has had any bankruptcy petitions against them…

• Apply

  The bankruptcy petition form you fill in depends on whether: the debtor…

This Tax Information and Impact Note is about direct recovery of debts due to HM Revenue and Customs from debtors' bank and building society accounts.

• Updated: 10 December 2014

• Updated: 14 April 2023

This tax information and impact note affects individuals and businesses who have debts of over £1,000 payable to the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs under or by virtue of an enactment or under a contract settlement.

• Updated: 8 July 2015

Creditors can use Form Bank 1 to petition when debtors fail to comply with a statutory demand for a liquidated sum payment under the Insolvency Act 1986.

• Updated: 31 August 2020

Creditors can use Form Bank 2 to petition when debtors fail to comply with a statutory demand for a liquidated sum payment under the Insolvency Act 1986.

Home Office consultation results published March 2011.

• Updated: 1 March 2011