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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what are the criteria and principles for deciding whether to publish a report by the Insolvency Service; and who makes that decision.

The Insolvency Service undertakes investigations under a variety of legislative provisions. In some of these investigations there are legal restrictions on disclosure of the information obtained.

Where an application, whether to wind up a company or disqualify a director, is made to the court then the disclosure of any report filed in support of the application is a matter for the court.

In all cases, if any directors are disqualified the Insolvency Service publishes the details of the disqualification on its website (for three months).