Speeches

Tulip Siddiq – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-04-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many referrals the Insolvency Service received from (a) each of the sectoral regulators and (b) any other third party for alleged malpractice by directors of companies in each year since 2009.

Anna Soubry

The number of complaints received about live companies, and the number of reports received about insolvent companies from insolvency practitioners (IPs), is summarised in the table below. No records are kept of the total number of complaints received about insolvent companies and separate figures are not available for complaints received from regulators.

Reporting year

No complaints received about live companies

No of reports received from IPs

09/10

5,989

7,030

10/11

4,852

5,373

11/12

3,523

5,401

12/13

3,014

5,335

13/14

3,603

4,671

14/15

3,791

4,620

15/16

3,904

4,277