Certificates for Sequestration for bankruptcy statistics: FOI release

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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