PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
New Businesses: Hampshire (26 September 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate she has made of the number of business start-ups in (a) East Hampshire constituency and (b) Hampshire in each year since 2010.

Asked by:
Damian Hinds (Conservative)

According to ONS Business Demography UK data (the most recent of which is for 2017), the number of enterprise births for each year since 2010 for a) East Hampshire and b) Hampshire are indicated in the table below. Please note, this data refers to the number of VAT/PAYE registrations.

	East Hampshire	Hampshire (county)
2010	545	5300
2011	620	5640
2012	625	5745
2013	690	7220
2014	630	7135
2015	740	7830
2016	660	8325
2017	685	7720

Answered by:
Kelly Tolhurst (Conservative)
4 October 2019