"Figure 5: In the week ending Friday 30 October 2020, there were 5,410 UK voluntary dissolution applications, which was lower than the same week in the previous year (6,509)","" "Total weekly company voluntary dissolution applications, UK, from week ending Friday 4 January 2019 to week ending Friday 30 October 2020","" "","" "Notes","1. Week 1 refers to the period week ending 4 January 2019 and week ending 3 January 2020. Week 44 refers to the period week ending 01 November 2019 and week ending 30 October 2020. 2. The dip in December 2019 is explained by two bank holidays in the week ending Friday 27 December 2019. 3. Weekly data are weeks from Saturday to Friday, as voluntary dissolution requests received on Saturdays and Sundays are typically processed on subsequent weekdays. For more information, see the accompanying Companies House [methodology page](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/economicoutputandproductivity/output/methodologies/weeklyindicatorsofcompanycreationsandclosuresfromcompanieshousemethodologyaugust2020). " "Unit","Voluntary dissolution applications" "","" "Week","2019","2020" "Week 1","3095","4109" "Week 2","6636","5984" "Week 3","5139","6605" "Week 4","7276","6391" "Week 5","6117","6418" "Week 6","5588","6629" "Week 7","5525","6140" "Week 8","6025","5371" "Week 9","4898","6239" "Week 10","5145","5411" "Week 11","6378","6418" "Week 12","5394","5444" "Week 13","5848","5461" "Week 14","5953","5378" "Week 15","5057","3601" "Week 16","4903","3631" "Week 17","4977","4124" "Week 18","5343","4836" "Week 19","4505","4552" "Week 20","6128","4499" "Week 21","4787","4637" "Week 22","4987","3856" "Week 23","5234","4860" "Week 24","5430","4601" "Week 25","4882","5312" "Week 26","4441","4521" "Week 27","4654","4775" "Week 28","5203","4642" "Week 29","5007","4642" "Week 30","4830","4489" "Week 31","5568","4579" "Week 32","6042","4522" "Week 33","4707","4325" "Week 34","4462","4142" "Week 35","4152","4248" "Week 36","4594","4282" "Week 37","5061","5018" "Week 38","4727","4698" "Week 39","5885","5399" "Week 40","4900","6198" "Week 41","5697","4993" "Week 42","5898","4974" "Week 43","5045","4528" "Week 44","6509","5410" "Week 45","5750","" "Week 46","8400","" "Week 47","6070","" "Week 48","6403","" "Week 49","6048","" "Week 50","5780","" "Week 51","6217","" "Week 52","3135",""