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Dept of Trade and Industry

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Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will provide a breakdown by (a) age, (b) sex, (c) ethnicity, (d) region, (e) housing tenure and (f) household structure of individuals declared bankrupt in (i) each year since 1997 and (ii) each quarter in 2003. [143257] Mr. Sutcliffe: The official bankruptcy figures for England and Wales are available broken down by the Official Receiver's Office that dealt with the case. There are no official breakdowns available by age, sex, ethnicity, housing tenure or household structure of the bankrupt. The following table gives the total number of bankruptcies by regions classified according to groupings of Official Receivers' Offices falling within them from 1999 to 2002 and the first three quarters of 2003. Number of bankruptcies in England and Wales by regions classified according to Official Receiver's Offices _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 2003 1999 2000 2001 2002 Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Anglia 3,408 3,144 3,521 3,527 1,013 1,003 1,082 London 1,286 1,285 1,427 1,457 450 463 479 Midlands 3,066 3,187 3,409 3,501 1,046 1,002 1,105 North East 3,396 3,838 4,228 4,227 1,082 1,208 1,185 North West 3,517 3,640 4,108 4,116 1,020 1,208 1,039 South East 2,931 2,730 2,755 3,052 1,017 999 1,056 South West 4,002 3,720 4,023 4,401 1,281 1,351 1,267 Public Interest Unit 5 6 6 11 3 3 4 National total 21,611 21,550 23,477 24,292 6,912 6,948 7,217 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

143257; 415 c559-60W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Age Bankruptcy Housing Gender Ethnic groups Economic regions Tenure

Contains statistics

Yes

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