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Consultation on SIP 3.1 – Individual Voluntary Arrangements

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Steven Wood By Steven Wood, Practice Support Specialist (Insolvency)

12 August 2021

  • Find out about proposed changes to SIP 3.1 relating to Individual Voluntary Arrangements

The Joint Insolvency Committee (JIC) is consulting on changes to Statement of Insolvency Practice 3.1 - Individual Voluntary Arrangements.

JIC undertook a consultation, issued in May 2020, which included revisions to SIP 3.1. At that time the revisions had been identified as being relevant changes as part of a review of SIP 3.2 on Company Voluntary Arrangements. No detailed review of SIP 3.1 was carried out at that time. This consultation builds on the work carried out in 2020 and the draft revised SIP 3.1 now being consulted on follows a detailed review of SIP 3.1.

The detailed review was carried out by a working group of the Joint Insolvency Committee which is comprised of insolvency professionals and other participants in the Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) process, including HMRC and the Insolvency Service.

SIP 3.1 was last updated in 2014. Since then the IVA market has changed considerably, both in terms of the numbers of IVAs commencing each year (2014 c. 51,000 to 2019 c. 78,000*), and with the growth of ‘volume providers’ (VPs)**.

Although operating within the same statutory and regulatory framework as other insolvency practitioners, VPs apply a different business model which relies on a standardised product and computer assisted case management to client debtors’ demand for IVAs.

There has also been a growth in providers of pre-insolvency services. These include lead generators and debt packagers, with some of these having their activities regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

The draft revised SIP 3.1 places more emphasis on the advice stage of the debt solution process and aims to make an Insolvency Practitioner’s (IP’s) responsibility more explicit in regards to having procedures in place to ascertain whether the debtor has received adequate and appropriate advice on the options available to them.

The draft revised SIP 3.1 incudes a greater emphasis on documenting the process, including, where appropriate, advice calls, and on providing information to creditors that is more extensive and useful to them than before.

The consultation will commence on 12 August 2021 and will be open for a period of 12 weeks, closing on 5 November 2021.

The JIC recognises that these are testing times. These are, however, only proposed changes. There is no intention to amend SIP 3.1 without careful consideration of the responses received and any plan to introduce changes will take into account any continuing challenges faced by the insolvency profession.

The JIC is now seeking your views on the proposed changes to SIP 3.1 and there is an opportunity in the consultation questionnaire to suggest other changes.

SIP 3.1 applies in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. A separate review of SIP 3.3 on Trust Deeds, which applies in Scotland ,is being undertaken and will be subject to a separate consultation in due course.


Download the consultation questionnaire

Download consultation SIP 3.1

Download comparison of consultation SIP 3.1 against current SIP 3.1


* Source: Insolvency Service “Individual Voluntary Arrangements Outcomes and Providers, 2020”

** VPs are defined in the Insolvency Service Guidance “Monitoring Volume Individual Voluntary Arrangement and Protected Trust Deed Providers” as “…a firm that controls greater than 2% of the total market (including new and existing cases), or 10% for PTDs or greater than 2% of new cases over a three-month period”.

Statements of insolvency practice (SIPs)

SIPs set principles and key compliance standards with which Insolvency Practitioners are required to comply.

Consultation on Statements of Insolvency Practice

By David Menzies CA, Director of Practice

5 May 2020

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