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Duncan Beach Insolvency Service CEO

Duncan Beach

At the start of 2026, Duncan Beach began the role of CEO of the UK Insolvency Service, responsible for around 1,800 staff across the UK.

A new senior leader will often say the first 100 days define their tenure. In this case, the challenge is greater: an externally appointed CEO must both understand and lead an established culture. True success depends on the willingness to find the organisation's biggest problems, confront them, and implement reform that protects the public.

This site exists to document the evidential record, in public, regarding serious concerns about the Insolvency Service's conduct—illustrated through the case of Lighthouse International Group (now Lighthouse Global)—and to hold the Insolvency Service's "leadership" publicly accountable.

We will publish any response from Mr Beach in full. If no response is provided, that lack of response will also be published and recorded as part of the public record.

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The reality of the task facing Duncan Beach

Through our lived experience and evidential record, we strongly believe Mr Beach is inheriting an institution with deep cultural and operational problems that staff inside the organisation are unlikely to present to a new CEO plainly.

The central issue is not "one dispute" or "one misunderstanding". The issue is whether the Insolvency Service has, in practice, become weaponisable—able to be triggered and leveraged in ways that harm innocent citizens and small businesses—while strongly and evidentially resisting transparency, scrutiny, and correction when challenged.

The problems now facing Duncan Beach

As set out in the published open letters and supporting documentation, the issues facing the CEO include:

  1. A documented record alleging investigations were initiated and sustained on provably false, unverified, or orchestrated grounds
  2. Serious concerns about verification standards: failure to validate sources, accusations, and motives before exercising state power
  3. Misrepresentation to the court, and failure to correct the record once challenged with evidence
  4. Severe human consequences (psychological, reputational, and financial) resulting from actions that should never have been initiated in the first place
  5. Institutional non-response and non-compliance: silence and ongoing failure to engage when presented with evidence and direct questions
  6. A widening chasm between the Insolvency Service's stated Charter commitments and its operational reality
  7. Escalation: growing public documentation, advocacy, lobbying, political engagement, and lawful accountability routes
  8. Pattern risk: evidence suggesting this is not an isolated case, but part of a broader systemic issue

Lighthouse Global exposes the Insolvency Service

The case of Lighthouse is presented as a case study in what can happen when coercive state power is deployed without proper verification, proportionality, or accountability.

A sample of the provable failures and misconduct includes:

Provably and evidentially lying to, and subsequently misleading the High Court in order to issue and maintain an arrest warrant

Ignoring medical incapacity and safeguarding concerns whilst engaging in obstruction and cover-ups when challenged

Colluding with the BBC, the state broadcaster, to maximise reputational damage and decimation of future prospects

Initiating the forcible removal of a female family member from a boarded plane, deploying more than ten officers

Refusing to acknowledge the Insolvency Service can be weaponised by anonymous predatory trolls and fake whistleblowers to attack any business in the UK

Using the term "public interest" as an excuse to force compliance with investigations even where they are falsely triggered

Colluding with and protecting predatory trolls and fake whistleblowers, including individuals who are convicted stalkers and child abusers

Doing whatever it takes to avoid investigating the veracity of sources and motives

Trying to liquidate a pre-startup research organisation with no assets to liquidate, for non-existent creditors and shareholders

This is presented only as an introduction. Further communications and evidence will be published in a structured way.

The "questions" problem: evasion instead of answers

A major accountability issue raised in the record is the Insolvency Service's refusal to answer substantive, legitimate questions.

In the Lighthouse matter, a series of 61 questions was sent to then Official Receiver Michael Bint. The record states that only five questions were addressed, with only two receiving anything resembling an adequate reply—leaving the majority unanswered.

This site will track those unanswered questions, the pattern of silence/non-response, and any formal replies (if they come).

Our commitment

  • We will publish evidence-led updates as they are prepared.
  • We will publish any response from Duncan Beach and/or the Insolvency Service in full.
  • If there is no response, that silence will be documented publicly as part of the public record.
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