Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of businesses, by sector, that have gone into administration in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England during the covid-19 outbreak.

The Insolvency Service publishes National Statistics on insolvency cases for England and Wales combined. It is not possible to identify accurately companies in England specifically, or companies that operated within specific regional or local areas before entering insolvency. The data used for insolvency statistics is compiled from information at Companies House. The registered office address for a company may not be representative of its trading location, and often it is changed upon insolvency to the address of the appointed Insolvency Practitioner dealing with the case. Subject to these caveats, the full quarterly statistics on company insolvency in England and Wales can be found online, with an update to include Q4 2020 due to be published on 29 January 2021:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/company-insolvency-statistics-releases.

Insolvency data are now additionally published on a monthly basis to provide faster indicators of the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on insolvency. However, proxy company location is not compiled for this monthly series. Top-level monthly summary statistics for England and Wales can be found online: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/monthly-insolvency-statistics.