Official Statistics

Monthly Insolvency Statistics May 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 May 2020

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

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

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Pre-Release Access List - Monthly Insolvency Statistics May 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

Companies insolvencies

  • There were 994 company insolvencies in May 2020.

Individual insolvencies

  • There were 1,540 Debt relief orders and 739 bankruptcies in May 2020.
  • In three months ending May 2020 there was a monthly average of 7,899 registered individual voluntary arrangements .

Updates to this page

Published 12 June 2020

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