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FOI/202000102430 · FOI · unclear

Certificates for Sequestration for bankruptcy statistics: FOI release

Published
2020-11-30
Received
2020-10-21
Responded
2020-11-10
Directorate
Topic
Money and tax, Public sector
Exemptions
27(1)

Information requested

1. The total number of Certificates for Sequestration signed and submitted with Debtor Applications that were subsequently awarded by AiB, by money advice organisation, for the period 5 April 2020 to 21 October 2020.

2. The total number of Certificates for Sequestration signed and submitted with Debtor Applications that were subsequently awarded by AiB, by money organisation, for the period 5 April 2019 to 4 April 2020.

Response

Table 1: Number of Certificates for Sequestration for bankruptcy awards during the period 05/04/2020 to 30/09/2020, by money advice organisation 1,2

Money Adviser Organisation Total Stepchange Debt Charity 270 Citizens Advice Rights Fife 83 North Lanarkshire Council 32 West Lothian Council 30 Other 589 Total 1,004

1 Displaying organisations with 25 or more certificate for sequestrations. Including debtor applications for Minimal Asset Process and Full Administration. Excluding Apparent Insolvency.

2 Data for October 2020 is being prepared for the next experimental statistics publication and is classified as "pre-release access". In accordance with Section 27(1) of FOISA, we do not have to provide information (and its breakdown) which is already planned to be released.

Table 2: Number of Certificates for Sequestration for bankruptcy awards during the period 05/04/2019 to 04/04/2020, by money advice organisation 1,2

Money Adviser Organisation Total StepChange Debt Charity 708 Citizens Advice Rights Fife 259 Christians Against Poverty 134 West Lothian Council 120 South Lanarkshire Council Money Matters 114 Campbell Dallas 82 Perth Citizens Advice Bureau 79 KPMG 70 CHAI Advice Service 66 North Lanarkshire Council 62 BDO 60 Inverclyde Advice First 60 Condies Business Recovery And Insolvency 56 Wylie And Bisset 56 Aberdeen CAB 54 The Moray Council 54 Angus Citizens Advice Bureau 51 Falkirk Council 51 Haddington Cab Haddington 48 Aberdeen City Council 47 Gerard Crampsey Ami 46 Dundee City Council 44 Dumfries And Galloway Citizens Advice Service 42 Advice Works 38 Payplan 37 Banff And Buchan CAB 35 Inverness Badenoch And Strathspey CAB 33 Community Housing Advocacy Project 31 East Renfrewshire Citizens Advice Bureau 30 Falkirk Citizens Advice Bureau 27 Lochaber Citizens Advice Bureau 27 Motherwell And Wishaw Citizens Advice Bureau 27 Working 4 U Money 27 Money Matters Money Advice Centre 25 Other 945 Total 3,645

1 Displaying organisations with 25 or more certificate for sequestrations. Including debtor applications for Minimal Asset Process and Full Administration. Excluding Apparent Insolvency.

2 Figures presented here may not be consistent with the official, headline statistics publication. These tables on based on data extracted from live databases at a different point in time. The headline statistics are the definitive source on the number of certificates for sequestration.

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Contact Please quote the FOI reference Central Enquiry Unit Email: ceu@gov.scot Phone: 0300 244 4000 The Scottish Government St Andrews House Regent Road Edinburgh EH1 3DG

Detected exemption language

In accordance with Section 27(1) of FOISA, we do not have to provide information (and its breakdown) which is already planned to be released.

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