Insolvency
(asked on 22nd June 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many (a) businesses and (b) people filed for bankruptcy in (i) York, (ii) Yorkshire and the Humber and (iii) England in each year since 2015.
Information on company insolvencies is sourced from Companies House, which holds information on companies only, not all business types. Furthermore, the registered office address for a company may not be its trading location, and is often the address of the appointed Insolvency Practitioner handling the case.
Subject to these caveats, numbers of company insolvencies in the requested locations were:
Year | York | Yorkshire and the Humber | England |
2015 | 102 | 1,850 | 13,913 |
2016 | 90 | 1,944 | 13,968 |
2017 | 61 | 1,857 | 13,976 |
2018 | 74 | 2,005 | 15,390 |
2019 | 99 | 2,140 | 16,554 |
2020 | 67 | 1,654 | 12,266 |
2021 | 86 | 2,103 | 13,701 |
2022 | 140 | 2,855 | 21,544 |
2023 (to 31 May) | 38 | 1,164 | 9,682 |
The numbers of individuals who entered bankruptcy were:
Year | York | Yorkshire and the Humber | England |
2015 | 47 | 1,558 | 14,808 |
2016 | 44 | 1,381 | 14,131 |
2017 | 47 | 1,362 | 14,220 |
2018 | 37 | 1,535 | 15,656 |
2019 | 39 | 1,474 | 15,801 |
2020 | 34 | 1,162 | 12,003 |
2021 | 15 | 766 | 8,232 |
2022 | 26 | 580 | 6,322 |
Numbers for 2023 form part of Official Statistics to be published in March/April 2024. The latest release can be found at Individual Insolvencies by Location, Age and Gender, England and Wales, 2022.