asked the Secretary of State for Trade how many, (a) bankruptcies, and (b) company liquidations have been notified to his Department in each of the last 12 months; and if he will break the figures down to show the industrial and commercial sectors concerned.

Monthly totals up to September 1980 were published in British Business 17 October 1980, page 318. An analysis by industry up to the second quarter of 1980 is shown on page 360 of British Business 24 October 1980. No industrial analysis is available monthly.