Farmers: Bankruptcy

(asked on 4th September 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of farmers that have declared themselves bankrupt in each year since 2010.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 11th September 2015

The number of compulsory liquidations for each of the last five years is shown below. These data are for England and Wales, separate data are not available for England. They are for the Standard Industrial Classification code covering crop and animal production and hunting (on a commercial basis for food, fur etc.)[1].

It should be noted that these are experimental statistics i.e. new official statistics that are undergoing evaluation.

Year

Company liquidations, both voluntary and compulsory

Bankruptcies where the individuals were self employed

2010

33

93

2011

44

90

2012

41

70

2013

44

49

2014

39

30

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/insolvency-statistics-april-to-june-2015

[1] Excludes hunting for sport or recreational activities, and fishing

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