PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
New Businesses (28 October 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of how many small businesses have been started in (a) Bristol, (b) London and (c) England in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

There is no single data source that comprehensively measures all business start-ups within the UK.

However, ONS publishes statistics showing the number of businesses newly registered for VAT or PAYE.

These figures are available from the ONS Business Demography releases.

Answered by:
Anna Soubry (The Independent Group for Change)
11 November 2015