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 directors who have been disqualified for fraudulent activity and have since committed further fraud offences after being disqualified, in each of the last five years.

In each of the last five years the Insolvency Service has obtained the following number of director disqualifications.

18/19 - 1246

19/20 - 1285

20/21 - 981

21/22 - 803

22/23 - 441

Directors may be disqualified for a range of corporate misconduct which can include fraudulent activity. Fraudulent activity is not recorded separately and therefore the data requested is not available. However, the full details of misconduct are published by The Insolvency Service on the Directors Disqualification register at https://www.gov.uk/search-the-register-of-disqualified-company-directors.