Striking Numbers for April 2009 - issued May 2009

Today in the UK:

• The average household debt will increase by £1.16 today (a decrease from £11.11 a day in January 2008)

• 323 people today will be declared insolvent or bankrupt. R3 estimate this will increase to 435 people a day throughout 2009 or 1 person becoming bankrupt or entering into an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) every 3.3 minutes.

• In the last 12 months consumers saved an average of £2.84 every day

• 2,262 Consumer County Court Judgements (CCJs) were issued every day in 2008

• 143 properties were repossessed every day during the last 3 months to end December 2008. The Council of Mortgage lenders estimates this will increase to approximately 205 a day throughout 2009.

• Unemployment increased by 1,967 people every day during 3 months to end February 2009.

• 3,000 people reported they had become redundant every day during 3 months to end February 2009.

• The average house has decreased in value by £92 every day during the last 12 months.

• £84m is the interest the Government has to pay each day on the UKs net debt of £743.6bn. This is projected to rise to £118m a day (£43bn) in 2010 – 2011 financial year.

• 33,600 applications for credit have been turned down every day during the past six months.

• 285 mortgage possession claims will be issued and 319 mortgage possession orders will be made today

• 396 landlord possession claims will be issued and 304 landlord possession orders will be made today.

• 20.3m plastic card purchase transactions will be made today with a total value of £1.02bn.

• Citizen Advice Bureaus dealt with 7,241 new debt problems every day

• The average car will cost £16.80 to run today

• £578m will be withdrawn from cash machines today.