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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many of the companies that were subject to a compulsory strike off process by Companies House were insolvent during the period 1 January 2019 to 17 May 2022.

If a company does not respond during the strike-off process and there are no objections to dissolution then Companies House will not receive information on the solvency of that company prior to striking it off the register. It is therefore not possible to say how many companies struck off over the period were insolvent.

Official statistics on dissolved and struck off companies are published each quarter (in Table 1e) of ‘Incorporated Companies in the UK’, with the latest release available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/incorporated-companies-in-the-uk-january-to-march-2022.