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  • Stat Demands

    Statutory Demands

    URN: 12/635

    Publication date: 29 Feb 2012

    Information on statutory demands

  • Dealing with your creditors

    In Debt - Dealing with your creditors

    URN: 12/694

    Publication date: 22 Mar 2012

    Dealing with your creditors during financial difficulty

  • How to petition for your own bankruptcy

    How to petition for your own bankruptcy

    URN: URN11/1411

    Publication date: 2 Dec 2011

    Dealing with debt. How to petition for your own bankruptcy

  • How to make someone bankrupt

    Dealing with debt: how to make someone bankrupt.

    URN: 11/1004

    Publication date: 1 Jun 2011

    Answers common questions about how to make someone who owes you money bankrupt, and explains what happens after the bankruptcy order is made.

  • Company Owes Money

    How to wind up a company that owes you money

    URN: 11/1283

    Publication date: 14 Sep 2011

    Dealing with debt. How to wind up a company that owes you money

  • How to wind up your own company

    How to wind up your own company

    URN: 11/1284

    Publication date: 14 Sep 2011

    Dealing with debt. How to wind up your own company

  • How to wind up a partnership

    URN: 10/1067

    Publication date: 1 Jul 2010

    Dealing with debt. How to wind up a partnership

  • Directors

    A Guide for Directors

    URN: 11/1016

    Publication date: 1 Jul 2011

    Information for Directors

  • Re-Use

    Re-use of a company name

    URN: 12/640

    Publication date: 6 Mar 2012

    Information on the re-use of a company name

  • GTB

    A Guide to Bankruptcy

    URN: 10/1144

    Publication date: 1 Oct 2010

    Information about the bankruptcy process and procedures.

  • Alternatives to Bankruptcy

    URN: 11/1313

    Publication date: 11 Oct 2011

    Information on alternatives to bankruptcy

  • DRO Guide

    Guide to Debt Relief Orders

    URN: 11/870

    Publication date: 1 Apr 2011

    Information on debt relief orders

  • Debt Relief Order (DRO Flyer)

    URN: 09/771

    Publication date: 1 Jan 2009

    Brief information on debt relief orders

  • FTVA

    Fast-Track Voluntary Arrangements

    URN: 11/836

    Publication date: 1 Apr 2011

    Information about Fast Track Voluntary Arrangements

  • Cancelled

    Can my bankruptcy be cancelled

    URN: 11/837

    Publication date: 1 Apr 2011

    Obtaining an annulment of bankruptcy

  • What happens when you are interviewed

    What happens when you are interviewed by the OR

    URN: 12/578

    Publication date: 31 Jan 2012

    What happens when you are interviewed by the Official Receiver

  • What will happen to my home

    What will happen to my home

    URN: 11-1445

    Publication date: 19 Dec 2011

    What happens to your home when bankruptcy occurs

  • Bank Account

    What will happen to my bank account

    URN: 11/1455

    Publication date: 23 Dec 2011

    What happens to your bank account when bankruptcy occurs

  • Pension

    What will happen to my pension

    URN: 10/832

    Publication date: 1 Apr 2010

    What will happen to your pension when bankruptcy occurs

  • Motor Vehicle

    What will happen to my motor vehicle

    URN: 12/589

    Publication date: 8 Feb 2012

    Information on what will happen to your motor vehicle in the event of bankruptcy.

  • IPO IPA

    Income Payments Orders and Agreements

    URN: 10/1302

    Publication date: 1 Nov 2010

    Information on income payment orders and agreements

  • BRO

    Bankruptcy Restrictions Orders

    URN: 10/833

    Publication date: 1 Jan 2010

    Information on bankruptcy restrictions orders

  • DRRO

    Debt Relief Restrictions Orders

    URN: 11/1267

    Publication date: 30 Aug 2011

    Information on debt relief restrictions orders

  • When End

    When will my bankruptcy end

    URN: 11/906

    Publication date: 1 May 2011

    Information on discharge from bankruptcy

  • Creditors

    A Guide for Creditors

    URN: 10/943

    Publication date: 1 Apr 2010

    Information for creditors

  • IIR

    Individual Insolvency Register

    URN: 10/1077

    Publication date: 1 Jul 2010

    Information about the register of individual insolvencies

  • Company Investigations - What we do?

    URN: 11/1456

    Publication date: 16 Dec 2011

    Information about Companies Investigations

  • Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986: Guidance notes for insolvency practitioners on the completion of statutory reports and returns

    URN:

    Publication date: 1 Dec 1999

    Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986: Guidance notes for insolvency practitioners on the completion of statutory reports and returns

  • Enforcement Concordat

    URN:

    Publication date: 18 Apr 1999

    Enforcement Concordat

  • CDDA and Failed Companies

    Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 and Failed Companies

    URN: 11/1410

    Publication date: 2 Dec 2011

    Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 and Failed Companies

  • What is the investigations hotline?

    URN: 12/744

    Publication date: 13 Apr 2012

    What the hotline covers and how to use it

  • Effect of a Disqualification

    URN: 11/1363

    Publication date: 4 Nov 2011

    The effect of a disqualification order

  • Trustees & liquidators in bankruptcies and compulsory liquidations

    URN: 11/1406

    Publication date: 22 Nov 2011

    Trustees & liquidators in bankruptcies and compulsory liquidations

  • Guide to The Insolvency Service

    Guide to The Insolvency Service

    URN: 10/1148

    Publication date: 1 Apr 2010

    What the Insolvency Service does

  • Insolvency Service Charter

    The Insolvency Service Charter

    URN: 10/1150

    Publication date: 1 Apr 2010

    The standards of service you can expect.

  • Annual Report 2010-11 cover

    Insolvency Service Annual Report

    URN:

    Publication date: 18 Jul 2011

    The Insolvency Service Annual Report 2010-11

  • The Insolvency Service Annual Report 2009-10

    URN:

    Publication date: 1 Jul 2010

  • Insolvency Service Corporate Plan 2011-15

    URN:

    Publication date:

    Insolvency Service Corporate Plan 2011-15

  • The Insolvency Service Publication Scheme

    URN: 07/1053

    Publication date: 1 Mar 2007

    Documents published under Freedom of Information

  • Freedom of Information Act and The Insolvency Service

    URN: 09/1597

    Publication date: 1 Dec 2009

  • Enquiry line

    Any Questions? Information on the Insolvency Enquiry Line

    URN: 11/1285

    Publication date: 14 Sep 2010

    What the enquiry line does and how to contact it.

  • Complaints Procedure

    Complaints Procedure

    URN: 12/562

    Publication date: 6 Feb 2012

    How to make a complaint against The Insolvency Service

  • How to complain against an IP

    How to make a complaint against an insolvency practitioner

    URN: 11/792

    Publication date: 1 Apr 2011

    How to complain against an authorised insolvency practitioner.