FOI release

FOI 109: HR1 data 2006-2020

Updated 15 February 2021

By email

Our ref: FOI20/21-109

Date: 10 November 2020

Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000

Thank you for your email of 13 October 2020 in which you requested the following from the Insolvency Service:

“Please can you send me the Insolvency Service's full dataset showing the number of HR1 Advance Notices of Redundancy received, broken down by month, and going back as far as possible.

Please also include the aggregate number of positions mentioned as at risk of redundancy in each month.

Please also tell me at which date of the month the full figures for the previous month/s become available to be requested.”

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

I can confirm the agency holds the information that you have requested, and the requested information is included in the tables in the annexe enclosed with this letter. Although the Insolvency Service does not publish these figures, they have been released under previous Freedom of Information requests.

Please note that employers are only required to file a Form HR1 where they are “proposing” to dismiss 20 or more employees at a single “establishment”.

“Propose” and “establishment” have distinct meanings in this context.

The aggregate number could include proposed dismissals due to insolvency, restructuring of a solvent/continuing business, changes to terms and conditions, proposed relocation of employees etc.

It should also be noted that a proposal to make a given number of dismissals does not necessarily result in all or any of the proposed dismissals occurring.

Complete data regarding the volume of HR1 forms received does not become available on a set day and differs, depending on how many have been received in the preceding month.

Please be aware that all FOI responses are now published on our website and are available to view at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/insolvency-service-foi-responses-october-to-december-2020.

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Kind regards

Kiera Bain

Redundancy Payments Service

The Insolvency Service

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Annexe to FOI20/21-109

Table 1: The number of HR1 advance notice of redundancy forms for every individual month going back to January 2006

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
2006	320	363	282	191	279	277	244	241	200	254	237	203
2007	276	226	264	229	242	205	191	216	183	236	212	162
2008	283	265	228	256	289	233	322	202	304	431	571	401
2009	612	433	549	417	361	346	581	298	351	323	299	226
2010	327	343	387	313	246	295	402	328	338	319	392	310
2011	472	426	486	308	333	423	371	276	346	288	430	259
2012	309	381	317	253	318	275	264	218	267	351	344	245
2013	347	306	327	281	276	233	241	167	185	230	235	139
2014	265	224	236	190	246	229	190	180	181	213	208	144
2015	236	263	397	294	400	326	303	279	306	398	391	279
2016	418	469	379	432	370	388	385	430	271	350	322	207
2017	393	292	485	238	352	280	309	268	278	303	346	155
2018	369	676	389	297	353	270	297	318	307	336	302	185
2019	365	351	227	303	398	345	286	214	303	343	305	196
2020	372	329	485	447	871	1,888	1,784	966	1,734

Table 2: The aggregate number of proposed dismissals for every individual month going back to January 2006

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
2006	26,177	21,917	20,137	13,708	26,341	18,701	16,584	23,971	20,003	22,044	45,802	13,511
2007	19,311	16,938	61,156	16,357	16,723	21,481	15,267	53,477	29,880	45,326	15,742	21,088
2008	21,369	15,899	28,908	24,398	20,871	14,134	31,620	12,719	23,075	30,463	30,399	28,425
2009	56,727	31,732	89,616	26,480	26,495	51,815	45,447	36,132	32,963	21,453	51,251	33,588
2010	24,320	27,514	35,138	33,039	25,906	52,785	49,064	29,644	52,667	46,174	83,066	70,002
2011	40,291	38,032	47,522	42,621	42,301	59,271	27,962	19,112	44,544	37,517	44,108	29,014
2012	34,677	32,906	30,062	30,275	26,090	29,100	28,645	16,976	30,204	59,724	26,629	23,653
2013	30,333	23,007	23,115	19,820	16,743	20,696	18,217	9,274	20,935	25,826	30,500	16,259
2014	18,536	20,173	22,930	11,454	20,783	20,713	9,299	9,200	15,163	13,225	20,321	12,541
2015	12,176	13,974	35,210	27,625	27,093	24,585	22,504	36,642	27,061	43,979	29,192	22,100
2016	44,612	67,292	27,136	45,246	34,050	34,781	31,692	24,467	32,333	37,605	25,677	16,332
2017	29,332	23,593	28,578	19,543	37,364	19,518	21,370	34,790	20,258	21,234	29,026	23,171
2018	38,752	36,801	156,723	22,837	32,379	25,486	18,882	22,678	19,461	26,968	25,064	16,154
2019	28,138	32,189	41,626	85,913	36,304	24,024	21,456	22,642	26,716	23,882	27,820	16,733
2020	29,884	28,674	44,465	62,443	73,331	155,739	149,688	58,056	82,029