Question follow-through · 529
Freight: Insolvency
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the number of UK haulage firms operating internationally that have entered insolvency in each of the last ten years.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 13 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 May 2026
- Answer
- 18 May 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the number of UK haulage firms operating internationally that have entered insolvency in each of the last ten years.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 May 2026
Answer published
The Department does not hold information about whether UK haulage firms, or UK firms more generally, operated internationally prior to entering insolvency.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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