Hansard

Businesses: Liquidation

Volume 708: debated on Monday 23 February 2009

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Asked by

Lord Chadlington

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many small and medium-sized businesses went into liquidation in 2008. [HL988]

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform & Cabinet Office
(Baroness Vadera)

The Insolvency Service does not hold information on business size and, therefore, cannot provide an estimate of the numbers of small and medium-sized businesses that went into liquidation in 2008.

The total numbers of companies entering liquidation in 2008 have been published and are available on the Insolvency Service website at www.insolvency.gov.uk/otherinformation/statistics/insolv.htm.