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Mr. John Moore
asked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for each year since 1945 (a) the number of company bankruptcies and (b) the number of company insolvencies.
Mr. Dell
The numbers of company liquidations involving insolvency—com- pulsory liquidations and creditors' voluntary liquidations—in England and Wales begun during the relevant years are as follows:
1945 | 57* |
1946 | 78* |
1947 | 161* |
1948 | 816 |
1949 | 1,066 |
1950 | 1,263 |
1951 | 1,027 |
1952 | 1,333 |
1953 | 1,319 |
1954 | 1,275 |
1955 | 1,169 |
1956 | 1,200 |
1957 | 1,081 |
1958 | 1,312 |
1959 | 1,294 |
1960 | 1,563 |
1961 | 1,846 |
1962 | 2,196 |
1963 | 2,154 |
1964 | 2,104 |
1 965 | 2,595 |
1966 | 3,250 |
1967 | 3,535 |
1968 | 3,165 |
1969 | 3,510 |
1970 | 3,689 |
1971 | 3,506 |
1972 | 3,063 |
1973 | 2,575 |
1974 | 3,720 |
1975 | 5,398 |
1976 | 5,939 |
1977 | 5,848 |
* Compulsory liquidations only. Figures for creditors' voluntary liquidations are not available for years before 1948. |