Official Statistics

Monthly Insolvency Statistics December 2020

Statistics on new company and individual insolvencies in England and Wales, and related statistics for Northern Ireland. Company statistics are presented for Scotland.

Documents

Commentary - Monthly Insolvency Statistics December 2020

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Data Tables in Excel (xlsx) Format - Monthly Insolvency Statistics December 2020

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Data Tables in Open Document Spreadsheet (ods) Format - Monthly Insolvency Statistics December 2020

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Pre-Release Access List - Monthly Insolvency Statistics December 2020

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Details

This statistics release contains the latest data on monthly company and individual insolvency (companies and individual people who are unable to pay debts and enter formal procedures).

Statistics are presented separately for England and Wales , Scotland and for Northern Ireland in this release.

Main messages

Company insolvencies

  • There were 1,228 company insolvencies in December 2020.

Individual insolvencies

  • There were 1,241 debt relief orders and 807 bankruptcies in December 2020.
  • There were an average of 7,918 individual voluntary arrangements registered in the 3 months ending December 2020.

Updates to this page

Published 15 January 2021

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