Insolvency
Business, Innovation and Skills
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth & Camborne, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many insolvencies there were in each local authority area in each of the last five years.
Ian Lucas (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Business and Regulatory Reform), Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; Wrexham, Labour)
Official statistics for company insolvencies are not available at local authority level, however figures for England and Wales as a whole are available on the Insolvency Service website.
The number of insolvent individuals in England and Wales is available broken down by the equivalent of local authority levels; these official statistics can be found on the Insolvency Service website here:
http://www.insolvency.gov.uk/otherinformation/statistics/regionalstatisticsmenu.htm