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35% of holiday accommodation accounts filed on 22 July were in deficit
11,654 sets of company accounts were filed with Companies House on 22 July 2026. This is what they show.
One industry stands out in the accounts filed with Companies House on 22 July 2026. Of the 37 companies in holiday accommodation businesses that filed that day, 13 reported liabilities larger than assets, or 35 per cent, against 17 per cent across all 11,475 filings.
Key points
- 11,654 sets of accounts were filed with Companies House on 22 July 2026.
- 1,938 of them, 17 per cent, reported net liabilities rather than net assets.
- 3,148 filings showed a weaker position than the prior year, against 6,042 that improved.
- The filings cover 56,822 employees between them.
- Other holiday and other collective accommodation had the highest share in deficit at 35 per cent of 37 filings.
What happened
Companies House publishes every set of accounts filed with it as open data on the day it is received. On 22 July 2026 that amounted to 11,654 filings, of which 11,475 carried a balance sheet figure we could read. Those are the accounts this report covers.
Of them, 1,938 reported net liabilities: the company owed more than it owned at its balance sheet date. That is 17 per cent.
The numbers
Every set of accounts carries the prior year alongside the current one, so each filing shows its own direction of travel. On 22 July 2026, 3,148 filings were weaker than a year earlier and 6,042 were stronger, meaning 34 per cent of those with a comparable prior year went backwards. That is in line with the 17 per cent average across the days measured so far.
Who filed most
| Industry | Filings | In deficit |
|---|---|---|
| Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate | 642 | 23% |
| Buying and selling of own real estate | 581 | 32% |
| Management consultancy activities other than financial management | 528 | 14% |
| Other business support service activities n.e.c. | 457 | 20% |
| Residents property management | 353 | 4% |
| Information technology consultancy activities | 304 | 16% |
Where the deficits are concentrated
Ranked by the share of filings reporting net liabilities, among industries with at least 30 filings that day.
| Industry | Filings | In deficit |
|---|---|---|
| Other holiday and other collective accommodation | 37 | 35% |
| Retail sale of clothing in specialised stores | 52 | 35% |
| Public houses and bars | 58 | 34% |
| Hotels and similar accommodation | 33 | 33% |
| Buying and selling of own real estate | 581 | 32% |
| Other sports activities | 58 | 29% |
By registered office
Towns with at least 20 filings that day. A registered office is an address for service and not necessarily where a business trades, so this is a weaker signal than the industry split.
| Town | Filings | In deficit |
|---|---|---|
| Newport | 26 | 35% |
| Wolverhampton | 30 | 33% |
| Watford | 41 | 32% |
| Guildford | 27 | 30% |
| Walsall | 28 | 29% |
What this does and does not mean
Net liabilities are not the same thing as insolvency. A company funded by its parent, or by a director loan, or one that is early in its life and still carrying losses forward, can report negative net assets for years while paying everything it owes. The figure is a fact about a filing, not a verdict on a business.
Companies House does not verify the information filed with it. Everything here is what companies reported about themselves.
What happens next
The next batch of accounts is published the following working day, and this report runs again. The series builds a picture no single filing can give: whether the share of British companies filing accounts that do not balance is rising, and which industries are carrying it.
The series so far
How this was produced. Companies House publishes every set of accounts filed with it as open data. Cap News downloads that file each working day, reads the tagged figures out of each filing and joins them to the company register. Nothing here is hand picked. The method sets out what is counted and what is not.