Department for Business and Trade written question – answered at on 8 September 2025.
Harriett Baldwin
Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many (a) corporate and (b) personal insolvencies were recorded by the Insolvency Service in each of the last twelve months.
Justin Madders
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Insolvency Service collates and publishes insolvency statistics from across the UK. Tables 1 and 2 below present the numbers of companies and individuals entering insolvency in England & Wales, Scotland (companies only) and Northern Ireland in each of the 12 months to June 2025.
Table 1: Company insolvencies, England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025
Month | England and Wales | Scotland | Northern Ireland |
July 2024 | 2,085 | 117 | 20 |
August 2024 | 1,921 | 102 | 11 |
September 2024 | 1,947 | 73 | 28 |
October 2024 | 1,731 | 115 | 31 |
November 2024 | 1,971 | 114 | 16 |
December 2024 | 1,865 | 82 | 23 |
January 2025 | 1,988 | 75 | 28 |
February 2025 | 2,021 | 103 | 21 |
March 2025 | 2,016 | 118 | 29 |
April 2025 | 2,062 | 101 | 30 |
May 2025 | 2,230 | 133 | 53 |
June 2025 | 2,043 | 105 | 25 |
Table 2: Individual insolvencies, England & Wales, Northern Ireland, 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025
Month | England & Wales | Northern Ireland |
July 2024 | 10,564 | 152 |
August 2024 | 9,972 | 90 |
September 2024 | 10,513 | 155 |
October 2024 | 9,125 | 155 |
November 2024 | 10,010 | 144 |
December 2024 | 10,044 | 101 |
January 2025 | 9,578 | 141 |
February 2025 | 9,948 | 126 |
March 2025 | 9,329 | 134 |
April 2025 | 10,102 | 123 |
May 2025 | 10,113 | 102 |
June 2025 | 10,279 | 167 |
Scottish individual insolvency numbers are published quarterly. Numbers of individuals in Scotland entering insolvency in each of the last 4 quarters to June 2025 are presented in Table 3 below.
Table 3: Individual insolvencies, Scotland, 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025
Quarter | Individual Insolvencies |
July to September 2024 | 1,893 |
October to December 2024 | 1,785 |
January to March 2025 | 1,671 |
April to June 2025 | 1,935 |
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