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IVAs have fell by half for September 2023

The individual insolvencies consisted of 671 bankruptcies, 2,913 debt relief orders (DROs) and 3,687 individual voluntary arrangements (IVAs). The number of registered IVAs in September 2023 was less than half the number in September 2022, likely in part because of an unusually large number of late registrations of IVAs approved in August and September. Nonetheless, the overall trend is that IVA numbers in 2023 to date have been lower than the record-high numbers in 2022. DRO and bankruptcy numbers were higher than last year, although the number of bankruptcies remained less than half of pre-2020 levels.