The first quarter of 2025-2026 (April to June) saw corporate insolvencies in Scotland rise by 17.3% year-on-year, totalling 332.
The new figures come from Accountant in Bankruptcy, Scotland’s insolvency service, which showed that there was a quarter-on-quarter increase of 12.9% corporate insolvencies, with the last quarter of 2024 having 294 total insolvencies.
Personal insolvency numbers (bankruptcies and protected trust deeds) in Scotland for the first quarter of 2025 decreased by 5.8% compared with the first quarter of 2024, to a total of 1,935.
Compared with the previous quarter, from January to March 2025, the number of personal insolvencies rose 15.8%.
“Corporate insolvency activity in…