Pre-pack administrations
This paper explains what pre-pack administrations are and how they work, describing recent reforms.

This paper provides statistics and analysis on women’s participation in the labour market and in business. It provides an overview of the financial effect of the coronavirus on women and tracks trends of women in employment, the gender pay gap, and women leading businesses.
Women and the economy (619 KB, PDF)
This paper provides statistics and analysis on women’s participation in the labour market and in business. It provides an overview of the financial effect of the coronavirus on women and tracks trends of women in employment, the gender pay gap, and women leading businesses.
In the UK, 15.49 million women aged 16+ were in employment in October-December 2020, down 117,000 from a year ago. The female employment rate was 71.8%, down from a record high of 72.4% a year previously. The male employment rate was 80.6%.
9.61 million women were working full-time, while 5.88 million were working part-time. Women made up the majority of part-time employment (38%), compared to 13% of men.
The most common sectors for women’s employment in the UK are health and social work (accounting for 20% of all jobs held by women at September 2020), the wholesale and retail trade (14%) and education (12%). In the health and social work sector, 78% of jobs are held by women and in education, they hold 71%.
Median weekly pay for female full-time employees was £543 at April 2020. This compared to £619 for male full-time employees.
After adjusting for inflation, median pay for female full-time employees was around 2% higher than its 2008 level, while median pay for men was around 8% lower.
The gender pay gap for all employees is larger than either the full-time or part-time pay gaps. This is because a much higher share of women than men are employed part-time and part-time workers tend to earn less per hour than those working full-time.
Of the UK’s small and medium-sized enterprises with employees, 17% were led by women in 2015.
Men are more likely than women to be involved in “total early stage entrepreneurial activity,” which includes owning or running a business less than 3.5 years old.
In June 2019, 29% of directors of FTSE100 companies were women. In the FTSE250 (the next largest 250 listed companies outside the FTSE100), 27% of directors were women.
Women and the economy (619 KB, PDF)
This paper explains what pre-pack administrations are and how they work, describing recent reforms.
This is a purely statistical note on public sector borrowing (the budget deficit), public sector debt and government debt interest payments.
This short paper summarises trends in unemployment rates and looks at how rates vary by ethnicity, age and gender.