§ Mr. Dudley Smithasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will state the approximate number of garages and filling stations which have gone out of business since the beginning of the current year.
§ Mr. David MitchellInformation is not available in the exact form requested. The information available relates to the number of insolvencies in garage, filling station, motor dealer and motor accessory dealer businesses in England and Wales for the first quarter of 1979. The number of bankruptcies (of unincorporated businesses) was 27 and the number of liquidations (of companies) was 41 (excluding members' voluntary liquidations, which do not involve insolvency and for which no quarterly analysis is made).