The following graphs show the numbers of notices of appointment published in the Gazette on a weekly basis. Therefore, they likely lag a week or so behind the actual dates of appointment. The graphs are updated each week.
Although there are very few moratoriums and restructuring plans, I thought I might as well provide graphs for those too. I have drawn the data for these from the Insolvency Service’s monthly statistics.
The quarterly figures for dissolutions (voluntary and compulsory) have been drawn from Companies House’s statistics. Liquidations pale into insignificance against the number of dissolutions: over the last four reported quarters, there were over 750,000 dissolutions (with a 27% leap in Q2 2025/26) but only c.33,000 liquidations (all types).
The following are the changes over Q3 2025 compared with Q3 2024:
- CVLs: almost no change at all in Q3 2025 (although the longer term trend is a slight decrease, as the post-Covid clean-up seems to have settled down)
- MVLs: 53% lower than in Q3 2025 (not surprising given the earlier pre-Budget flurries)
- ADMs: 6% lower
- BKYs: 4% higher (but note the recent plummet. The InsS Oct-25 stats page explains that, due to a switch in case management system, no bankruptcy orders were made on 31 Oct, but it appears to me that the effect may have been more pronounced than just the one day)
- WUCs: 18% higher (again, note the recent plummet. The InsS also explained that the move to ISCIS led to their figures perhaps being depressed for end Oct, but I am not sure why this would affect the Gazette adverts, so I suspect the ISCIS move had more repercussions on OR functioning than just on the InsS stats)
The Insolvency Service’s monthly figures are at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/company-insolvency-statistics-releases and https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/individual-insolvency-statistics-releases (and pre March-24 stats are at www.gov.uk/government/collections/monthly-insolvency-statistics).
