Current status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 14 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many cases of bankruptcy were declared in the past five years, broken down by local authority area.
The Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB) publishes the number of bankruptcies by local authority area in the Annual Scottish Statutory Debt Solutions statistics publication. The latest available data for the April 2023 – March 2024 are available here: Scottish Statutory Debt Solution Statistics 2023-24: Comprehensive Excel Tables | Accountant in Bankruptcy the number of bankruptcies by local authority are on the sheet labelled Table_la_2a.
The 2024-25 publication is due for release on the 27 August 2025 where these figures will be updated.