According to analysis of insolvency data by accountancy group UHY Hacker Young, the rise was largely driven by a 33% increase in the number of pub businesses shuttering in Scotland where the number of failures was up from 40 to 53 last year.
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For England and Wales, pub and bar business insolvencies increased from 729 to 736.
The 789 pubs and bars groups in England Scotland and Wales that fell into insolvency last year was more…