Construction: Insolvency

(asked on 6th January 2022) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government maintains a database of firms operating within the repair, maintenance and improvement sector in England that have gone into liquidation in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Lee Rowley Portrait
Lee Rowley
Minister of State (Minister for Housing)
This question was answered on 14th January 2022

The Government does not maintain a specific database of firms operating within the repair, maintenance and improvement sector in England that have gone into liquidation in each of the last three years.

However, the Government does hold data from the Insolvency Service on liquidations of firms in the wider construction sector in England and Wales. The table below sets out Registered Compulsory Liquidations and Registered Creditors' Voluntary Liquidations to three-digit level Standard Industrial Classification from 2018 to Q3 of 2021.

Description

2018

2019

2020

2021 to Q3

2,754

2,881

1,874

1,619

Construction of buildings

876

975

637

538

Development of building projects

419

420

280

251

Construction of residential and non-residential buildings

457

555

357

287

Civil engineering

144

156

117

121

Construction of roads and railways

24

31

35

51

Construction of utility projects

23

19

11

12

Construction of other civil engineering projects

97

106

71

58

Specialised construction activities

1,734

1,750

1,120

960

Demolition and site preparation

57

57

28

24

Electrical, plumbing and other construction installation activities

624

646

407

361

Building completion and finishing

564

606

406

309

Other specialised construction activities

489

441

279

266

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