Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses in Harlow constituency have been declared bankrupt in each of the last 10 years.

Figures are not available at the level of detail requested.

Official statistics covering corporate insolvencies for England and Wales are not available at sub-national level, as the data supplied to the Insolvency Service does not include location information. The latest national level figures are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/insolvency-statistics-january-to-march-2014

Official statistics covering individual insolvencies are available at the level of parliamentary constituencies, but do not separately identify bankruptcies where the individual was self-employed. The latest figures, covering the period 2000 to 2012, are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/insolvency-statistics-individual-insolvencies-by-region. An update to this publication, covering the calendar year 2013, will be published as a statistical release on Thursday 10 July 2014.