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  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    RSM and Quantuma staff alleged to have received UK insolvency agency tip-offs

    At least four people fired over allegations that staff improperly shared information with private sector firms

    Skyscrapers on the skyline of the square mile financial district of the City of London
  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    UK business
    Insolvency Service fires 3 staff after probe into data sharing with private sector

    UK agency also reports two bankruptcy practitioners identified in investigation to ICAEW

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  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    Insolvency Service prosecutions halve despite UK Covid fraud

    Just 95 charges brought in England and Wales in year to March 2023, down from 174 in previous 12 months

  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    Greensill Capital
    MP questions David Cameron’s role in Greensill Capital

    Nick Smith asks Insolvency Service to consider whether foreign secretary was a ‘shadow’ director of the collapsed finance company

    David Cameron
  • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
    UK economy
    Company insolvencies in England and Wales at highest level since 2009

    Increase in liquidations driven by high borrowing costs and slowing demand, says government agency

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  • Monday, 3 July, 2023
    Carillion PLC
    Former Carillion finance chief barred from UK boards for 11 years

    Decision by Insolvency Service is the first boardroom ban on an executive of failed construction company

    Carillion’s former finance director Zafar Khan at a parliamentary committee meeting in February 2018
  • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
    UK economy
    Corporate insolvencies climb in England and Wales as costs bite

    Year-on-year increase of almost a third in December reflects challenging business climate, say experts

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  • Friday, 16 September, 2022
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    Corporate insolvencies jump in England and Wales as soaring costs bite

    Figures highlight effect of higher interest rates and spiralling energy bills on businesses

    A closing down sale at a store in central London
  • Friday, 19 August, 2022
    P&O Ferries
    P&O Ferries escapes criminal prosecution over mass sackings

    UK Insolvency Service concludes ‘no realistic prospect of conviction’ over treatment of crew

    A demonstration in March against the dismissal of P&O Ferries workers at the terminal in Cairnryan, Scotland
  • Tuesday, 2 August, 2022
    UK economy
    Corporate insolvencies jump in England and Wales after withdrawal of Covid support

    Year-on-year rise of 81% comes as combined threat of soaring costs and weakening demand hits businesses

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  • Monday, 25 July, 2022
    Coronavirus economic impact
    Insolvency Service uses new UK powers to ban Covid loan fraudsters

    Directors have been dissolving businesses to avoid bounceback funding debts

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  • Monday, 4 July, 2022
    Coronavirus economic impact
    Crackdown on UK company directors who abused Covid support schemes

    More than one-third of those disqualified in the past two months found to have misused loan or furlough programmes

    Pedestrians walk along a high street with the shops closed in Maidstone, south-east England, after Britain’s third coronavirus lockdown shut all non-essential stores
  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    UK economy
    Business insolvencies in England and Wales soar to 60-year high

    Rapid increase in voluntary liquidations driven by inflation and supply chain squeeze

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  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    P&O Ferries
    P&O Ferries faces criminal investigation into sacking of 800 sailors

    UK Insolvency Service confirms probe into redundancies after being called in by Kwasi Kwarteng

    The Pride of Kent and The Spirit of Britain ferries operated by P&O at the Port of Dover in England
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