Welcome to our regular monthly round up of all the other business and insolvency stories that have happened in the past 30 days that you might have missed during the holiday season.

School’s out for summer and even if people can’t head straight to the airports like they used to, they can head to the beach or the countryside near them to begin their well-deserved breaks.

The Treasury has admitted that more than one in four companies that were allowed to defer their VAT payments during the spring lockdown last year still owe billions in unpaid VAT arrears.