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Freight: Insolvency

Question for Department for Business and Trade

UIN 15625, tabled on 26 February 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many road haulage businesses trading under SIC code 49410 entered insolvency in each of the last five years.

Answered on

29 February 2024

Estimated numbers of companies with the SIC code 49410 that entered insolvency in the UK in each of the last five calendar years are presented in the table below.

Calendar Year

Companies entering insolvency (SIC code 49410 – Freight Transport by Road)

2019

280

2020

189

2021

265

2022

408

2023

494

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