Asked by: Alison Griffiths (Conservative - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what meetings the Minister for Employment Rights, Competition and Markets has had with Doug Gurr since 4 July 2024.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Details of ministerial meetings are routinely published on Gov.uk.
Asked by: Alison Griffiths (Conservative - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what meetings the Minister for Trade Policy and Economic Security has had with Doug Gurr since 4 July 2024.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Details of ministerial meetings are routinely published on Gov.uk.
Asked by: Alison Griffiths (Conservative - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what meetings the Minister for Services, Small Business and Exports has had with Doug Gurr since 4 July 2024.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Details of ministerial meetings are routinely published on Gov.uk.
Asked by: Alison Griffiths (Conservative - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what meetings the Minister for Industry has had with Doug Gurr since 4 July 2024.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Details of ministerial meetings are routinely published on Gov.uk.
Asked by: Alison Griffiths (Conservative - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what meetings he has had with Doug Gurr since 4 July 2024.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Details of ministerial meetings are routinely published on Gov.uk.
Asked by: Alison Griffiths (Conservative - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many small businesses the Minister for Services, Small Business and Exports has visited since 4 July 2024.
Answered by Gareth Thomas - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
I have engaged extensively with small businesses since my appointment, including visits to Ware, Coventry, Birmingham, Durham, Darlington, Gateshead, and various locations in London. I also regularly attend small business round tables alongside industry representatives such as the Federation of Small Business, Small Business Britain, and Enterprise Nation, as well as meeting small businesses one-to-one in the Department for Business and Trade.
I am looking forward to having further engagements.
Asked by: Alison Griffiths (Conservative - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2025 to Question 19977 on Trade Union Officials, on what dates (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department have met with trade union officials since 1 November 2024.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Secretary of State and departmental Ministers have met with many trade union officials, representing millions of British workers since 1 November 2024. Information about Ministerial meetings can be found on Gov.uk.
Asked by: Alison Griffiths (Conservative - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what data his Department holds on the number of businesses that have closed involuntarily in each month of the last five years.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Official statistics on company involuntary dissolutions are published quarterly. These are made publicly available online by Companies House. We have extracted and produced the relevant yearly figures for your convenience below:
Financial Year | Struck off and dissolved |
2023/24 | 631,742 |
2022/23 | 557,240 |
2021/22 | 557,653 |
2020/21 | 425,594 |
2019/20 | 497,639 |
The statistics for October to December 2024 will be published in the next quarterly release on 30 January 2025 at 9:30am.
The most recent complete datasets can be found here:
Incorporated companies in the UK July to September 2024 - GOV.UK
Statistics for previous periods are available here.
Asked by: Alison Griffiths (Conservative - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what data his Department holds on the number of involuntary business liquidations that have taken place each month of the last five years.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The numbers of companies entering compulsory liquidation in each month since January 2019 are provided in monthly Official Statistics on company insolvency at Company insolvency statistics releases - GOV.UK and in the tables below.
England & Wales
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
January | 317 | 295 | 51 | 124 | 204 | 339 |
February | 259 | 231 | 33 | 77 | 162 | 225 |
March | 237 | 175 | 33 | 140 | 302 | 230 |
April | 234 | 100 | 30 | 94 | 187 | 291 |
May | 272 | 32 | 34 | 141 | 195 | 248 |
June | 274 | 70 | 37 | 148 | 264 | 293 |
July | 250 | 175 | 44 | 137 | 249 | 336 |
August | 195 | 79 | 38 | 151 | 232 | 236 |
September | 228 | 49 | 32 | 219 | 255 | 221 |
October | 237 | 67 | 53 | 252 | 260 | 212 |
November | 270 | 37 | 54 | 296 | 364 | 340 |
December | 170 | 43 | 52 | 186 | 164 | [x] |
Source: Insolvency Service. [x] indicates not yet available
Scotland
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
January | 57 | 45 | 12 | 14 | 53 | 34 |
February | 51 | 44 | 7 | 10 | 22 | 33 |
March | 68 | 47 | 11 | 9 | 40 | 44 |
April | 66 | 17 | 9 | 17 | 41 | 48 |
May | 50 | 10 | 8 | 19 | 35 | 43 |
June | 45 | 21 | 14 | 8 | 36 | 43 |
July | 45 | 21 | 14 | 15 | 44 | 33 |
August | 49 | 18 | 11 | 38 | 33 | 42 |
September | 43 | 12 | 8 | 25 | 30 | 18 |
October | 55 | 10 | 11 | 19 | 35 | 60 |
November | 56 | 13 | 21 | 42 | 30 | 54 |
December | 47 | 21 | 17 | 22 | 40 | [x] |
Source: Companies House. [x] indicates not yet available
Northern Ireland
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
January | 7 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
February | 9 | 18 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 14 |
March | 25 | 12 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 8 |
April | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 17 |
May | 35 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 22 |
June | 16 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 8 |
July | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
August | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
September | 28 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 15 |
October | 39 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 17 |
November | 22 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 3 |
December | 18 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 6 | [x] |
Source: Department for the Economy, Northern Ireland
Asked by: Alison Griffiths (Conservative - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what data his Department holds on the number of businesses that have closed voluntarily in each month of the last five years.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Official statistics on company voluntary dissolutions are published quarterly. These are made publicly available online by Companies House. We have extracted and produced the relevant yearly figures from this publication for your convenience below:
Financial Year | Wound up voluntarily or subject to the supervision of the court under the Companies Act |
2023/24 | 31,603 |
2022/23 | 28,711 |
2021/22 | 23,901 |
2020/21 | 24,287 |
2019/20 | 26,629 |
The statistics for October to December 2024 will be published in the next quarterly release on 30 January 2025 at 9:30am.
The most recent complete datasets can be found here:
Incorporated companies in the UK July to September 2024 - GOV.UK
Statistics for previous periods are available here.