Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many disqualification reports were submitted by the Leeds, Sheffield and Hull Official Receiver's offices in the year ending 31 March 2014; and what the target is for the combined Leeds office for the year ending 31 March 2015.

The Service records disqualification report submissions by Official Receiver Command and not by location. A Command is overseen by a single Official Receiver and, currently, The Service has 18 Commands based over between one and three geographic locations.

Successful submissions for the year ended 31 March 2014:

• Humber and East Yorkshire Command (Hull): 18 reports authorised to proceed;
• Northern Command (Leeds): 4 reports authorised to proceed;
• East Midlands and South Yorkshire Command (Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield): 27 reports authorised to proceed.

From 1 April 2014 the East Midlands and South Yorkshire Command became East Midlands Command; with Sheffield transferred into the Northern Command. Northern Command has a target of 12 disqualification reports submitted and authorised to proceed in the year ending 31 March 2015.

In November 2014, with the closure of the Hull office, the Humber and East Yorkshire Command will be amalgamated with the Northern Command. A revised target for successful disqualification submissions for the combined Command has not yet been set and will be established as part of routine planning later in the year.