It is not possible from records held centrally and in a readily available format to provide all the information requested. The following table provides the statistics which could be compiled in the time available and which most closely match those requested.
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 20061 Traders 8 9 23 20 12 14 Non-traders 36 39 47 67 108 40 Missing 0 0 0 0 1 0 Total bankruptcies 44 48 70 87 121 54 1 January to June Notes: 1. The Insolvency Trade Classification (ITC) was used to classify trading-related bankruptcies (and company liquidations) until end September 2006. However, only the period from January to June 2006 is provided because of the way the data are held. 2. The figures above include bankruptcies filed on either the petition of the debtor (trader) or of a creditor. 3. The geographical information presented above is based on bankrupts' postcodes and is subject to an element of missing or unusable data. Nationally, this has been decreasing from around 9 per cent. in 2001 to 4 per cent. in 2006.