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.
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 |