Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 110607

Freight: Insolvency

Tabled: 3 February 2026
Answered: 10 February 2026
Named Day

Question

Dr Al Pinkerton

Liberal DemocratSurrey Heath

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the number of business insolvencies in the UK road haulage sector in each of the past 20 years.

Answer

Blair McDougall
There has been a change to industry classifications during this time period, but the statistics are broadly comparable. Estimated numbers of companies in the relevant Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes that entered insolvency in the UK between...

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