Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of business insolvencies in the last two years.
The Insolvency Service produces quarterly statistics on the number of new insolvencies for companies and individuals in England and Wales. The most recent statistics, covering the period October to December 2017, which include a comparison with previous periods, were published on Friday 26 January 2018 on Gov.uk.