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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of personal insolvencies in each local authority area in the UK in each year since 2014.

The Insolvency Service produces official statistics covering individual insolvencies by local authority area for each calendar year for England and Wales: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/individual-insolvencies-by-location-age-and-gender-england-and-wales-2017

The Accountant in Bankruptcy produces statistics covering individual insolvencies by local authority area for each financial year for Scotland: https://aib.gov.uk/about-aib/statistics-data/debt-solutions-local-authority

No statistics are available relating to individual insolvencies by local authority area in Northern Ireland.