Administration · 18 November 2025
Merit Health
Construction · Cramlington · North East England · Part of Merit
What happened
MERIT HEALTH LIMITED (company number 12557674), incorporated in 2020, entered administration on 18 November 2025. Its status at Companies House is now: administration.
Why it failed
Cash flow pressure from delayed starts on large projects and disputes over contract variations with key customers, a withdrawn investor funding offer and an HMRC winding-up petition led to administration.
- Main reason: Delays
- Clients not paying or failing
- Cash flow
- Funding withdrawn
- Sale or investment failed
- HMRC debts
Our summary of the reasons given in the administrators' proposals. These record the administrators' and directors' account of what happened.
An administrator, a licensed insolvency practitioner, takes control of the company to try to rescue it, sell the business or get a better result for creditors than a liquidation.
Timeline
The last accounts and payment report before the failure, then what happened, with the time between each.
30 June 2024
Last accounts filed were made up to this date
17 months later
18 November 2025
Administration started
AccountsPayment reportInsolvency
Before it failed
Key figures
- Owed to unsecured creditors (estimated), as at 18 November 2025
- £7.6m
- HMRC owed £167k. Expected return to unsecured creditors: highly unlikely
- Administrators' proposals
The last accounts filed were full accounts made up to 30 June 2024, 17 months before it went into administration.
The full filing history, including any late filings, charges and director changes, is on Companies House.
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