Question follow-through · 24354
Businesses: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what data his Department holds on the number of businesses that have closed involuntarily in each month of the last five years.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 15 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 20 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what data his Department holds on the number of businesses that have closed involuntarily in each month of the last five years.
20 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jan 2025
Answer published
Official statistics on company involuntary dissolutions are published quarterly. These are made publicly available online by Companies House. We have extracted and produced the relevant yearly figures for your convenience below: Financial YearStruck off a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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