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.

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 750,000 dissolutions but only c.31,000 liquidations (all types).

The following are the figures for Q1 2026 compared with Q1 2025:

• CVLs: 1% drop in Q1 2026
• MVLs: 10% up in Q1 2026
• ADMs: the 156 Gazette notices for the connected appointments skews the increase to 65% in Q1 2026 (and sadly it seems my Gazette figures aren’t reliable on that, as I have spotted that some of those connected ADMs have been advertised twice). However, even removing this blip, Q1 2026 is 27% higher than Q1 2025
• BKYs: 23% higher in Q1 2026, but I suspect that most of this is down to the new ISCIS system catching up on appointments that should have been processed in the previous quarter
• WUCs: 7% higher, but again I think this is skewed because of the new ISCIS system catch-up

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).