UK Gazette Insolvency - Company Winding-Up & Liquidation

Corporate insolvency notices from The Gazette, the UK's official public record: the earliest public signal that a company is in trouble. The 23-25 October 2026 scan (Friday-Sunday) carried about 500 corporate notices across about a dozen notice types; a busy three-weekday window carries roughly 1,100-1,300, and a five-day weekday window about 1,700.

Included: winding-up orders and petitions, resolutions for winding up, appointments of liquidators and administrators, meetings of creditors, notices to creditors, notices of dividends, final meetings.

Personal insolvency is excluded. Bankruptcy orders, individual voluntary arrangements and individual dividends are personal data and never appear in this dataset. For one corporate type (2403, re-use of a prohibited name) the free-text body is not published because the statutory template can name an individual.

Low cost

From $0.00005 per record, down to $0.00003 at Gold. Pay only for the notices or aggregate rows you receive.

What you get per notice

field	meaning
noticeId, noticeUrl	the Gazette notice ID and its official page
companyName	the company the notice is about
companyNumber	Companies House number where the notice states one
noticeType, noticeCode	e.g. Winding-Up Orders / 2452, Appointment of Liquidators / 2443
published, updated	publication timestamp
registeredOffice, principalTradingAddress	the registered-office / principal-trading address where the notice states it (not every notice does; capped at 300 characters)
content	the notice body as plain text (capped at 4,000 characters)
latitude, longitude	the notice's location where the Gazette supplies one
windowStart, windowEnd	the scan window

Search it

• Company - company="HEMEL" (substring).
• Company number - companyNumber="09241129" (exact).
• Notice type - noticeType="Petitions to Wind Up", "Appointment of Liquidators".
• Notice code - noticeCode="2452".
• Keyword - keyword="High Court".
• Window - dateFrom="2026-10-21", dateTo="2026-10-25" (up to 5 days).

Example inputs

A company's insolvency trail

{ "company": "HEMEL ACCESS", "dateFrom": "2026-10-21", "dateTo": "2026-10-25",
  "maxResults": 50 }

Winding-up orders in the last three days

{ "noticeType": "Winding-Up Orders", "maxResults": 100 }

Everything mentioning one court

{ "keyword": "High Court", "dateFrom": "2026-10-22", "dateTo": "2026-10-25",
  "maxResults": 100 }

Aggregate it

Set groupBy with no filters for the window summary. To combine it with filters, set mode:"aggregate" explicitly (a filter without mode routes to the record search):

{ "mode": "aggregate", "groupBy": "day" }

groupBy = noticeType (default), noticeCode or day. Every row carries groupKey, groupCount, groupBy and totalMatched.

The default (empty) run scans the last three days and returns the notice-type summary.

Scan window and rate limit

The Gazette sets Crawl-delay: 10 in robots.txt, so this actor waits ten seconds between requests and scans at most 5 days per run (3 days by default). For longer histories, run consecutive windows.

Source and licence

The Gazette, published by The Stationery Office under the Open Government Licence v3. The licence does not cover personal data, which is why personal insolvency notices are excluded.

Source: The Gazette insolvency notices.