Lapsed and suspended: the two temporary-looking ones
30 records are Lapsed and 8 are Suspended. A lapse is a licence that ended because a condition of holding it stopped being met — commonly the licensee ceasing to exist. A suspension is the regulator stopping a permission while something is decided, without ending it.
Suspension is the only ENDING on the register that is not yet an ending: active, surrendered, revoked and lapsed are all settled states, and a suspended licence is one whose fate is being decided. Pending is unfinished in the other direction — a permission on its way in rather than on its way out. That is why there are eight of them: it is a position a licence passes through rather than one it rests in.
A lapse frequently follows insolvency, so it is often the register recording something that happened to the company rather than something the regulator did to it.
The problem arrives next. Both are rare enough that a single case moves the percentage, and rare statuses are exactly the ones that get quoted as trends.
What to do with it. If a licence you care about is suspended, the register will not tell you why. The regulator publishes enforcement outcomes separately, and that is the file to read next.
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