{"id":414,"date":"2020-04-20T12:51:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T12:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompliancealliance.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=414"},"modified":"2026-07-15T14:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:51:19","slug":"appointment-statistics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thecompliancealliance.co.uk\/blog\/appointment-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointment Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 750,000 dissolutions but only c.31,000 liquidations (all types).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following are the figures for Q2 2026 compared with Q2 2025:<\/p>\n\n\n\n