The Insolvency Service has updated its enforcement outcomes management information for March 2026. The data shows that there were 128 director disqualifications and six bankruptcy and debt relief restrictions.

The Insolvency Service has updated its enforcement outcomes management information tables with data for May 2024. The data shows that there were 98 director disqualifications and 7 bankruptcy and debt relief restrictions following enforcement action by the Insolvency Service.

The Insolvency Service has updated its enforcement outcomes management information for May 2026. The data shows that there were 75 director disqualifications. No data has yet been published for bankruptcy and debt relief restrictions.

The Insolvency Service has updated its enforcement outcomes management information tables for November 2025. The data shows that there were 81 director disqualifications and no bankruptcy and debt relief restrictions.

The Insolvency Service has updated its enforcement outcomes management information for October 2025. The data shows that there were 96 director disqualifications and five bankruptcy and debt relief restrictions.

The Insolvency Service has published director disqualification outcomes under Section 6 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 (CDDA 1986) from January 2021 to December 2023. The data shows that the total number of pre-issue undertakings during this period was 88. The total number of post-issue undertakings was 15 and the number of disqualification orders totalled to 26.

The Insolvency Service has updated its enforcement outcomes management information for September 2025. The data shows that there were 73 director disqualifications and 12 bankruptcy and debt relief restrictions.

The Insolvency Service has published its Annual Review of Insolvency Practitioner Regulation (IPR) for 2025. The review outlines the Insolvency Service's oversight of the insolvency profession and the regulatory activities of the three Recognised Professional Bodies, summarising legislative, policy and regulatory developments, changes to professional standards, complaints handling, and regulatory and disciplinary activity during 2025.

The Insolvency Service has published its annual plan for 2025–26, outlining its targets and priorities for the coming fiscal year. Marking the final year of the Service's current five-year strategy, the plan focuses on supporting economic growth and stability through an enhanced regulatory regime. Key priorities include strengthening the insolvency framework, addressing financial wrongdoing, and supporting individuals experiencing financial distress. The Service has also announced that new long-term strategic plans (applicable in Scotland, England and Wales) will be revealed in early 2026.

The Insolvency Service has published its annual plan for 2026–2027, setting out its strategic priorities, key initiatives and performance targets for the year ahead. The plan focuses on maximising returns to creditors, tackling financial wrongdoing, and supporting individuals and businesses experiencing financial distress. It commits to reviewing the standards framework for insolvency practitioners as the agency assumes full responsibility for setting professional standards, consulting on reforms to the insolvency rules and the personal insolvency regime, developing proposals to simplify insolvency processes for small and medium-sized enterprises, modernising civil enforcement, strengthening collaboration with Companies House, establishing a taskforce to tackle abusive phoenixism and enhancing digital systems and data capabilities. The plan also sets out organisation-wide improvements, including strengthening cyber security, expanding the use of artificial intelligence, improving customer services and workforce planning, reducing operational costs and establishing performance measures for 2026–2027, alongside financial forecasts.

The Insolvency Service has published its 2023-2024 annual report and accounts which provides an overview of the agency’s performance. Notable changes for the Insolvency Service this year included launching an Anti Money Laundering Intelligence Cell to disrupt financial crimes, establishing a new fee income stream from the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act and rolling out a directors' information hub to guide companies through insolvency.

The Insolvency Service has published its annual review of Insolvency Practitioner Regulation (IPR) for 2023. The review provides detail of the regulation of the insolvency profession, including a review of activities undertaken by the Insolvency Service and action taken by regulators against their member insolvency practitioners.