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Written question asked by Malcolm Moss (Conservative) on Monday, 30 November 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 2 December 2009. It was answered by Baroness Smith of Basildon (Labour) on Thursday, 10 December 2009 on behalf of the Cabinet Office.

Cinemas: Closures

Question
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many cinemas have closed in (a) England and (b) North East Cambridgeshire since 1 January 2008.
Answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Jil Matheson, dated December 2009:"As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning what estimate has been made of the number of cinemas which have closed in (a) England and (b) North East Cambridgeshire since 1 January 2008 (303714).""ONS does not have any statistics on the number of cinemas. Annual statistics on business births, deaths and survival are available from the ONS release on Business Demography at www.statistics.gov.uk. The table below contains the latest statistics available on business deaths of cinema businesses for England and the constituency of North East Cambridgeshire. All counts are based on enterprises and not local units (i.e. sites). Where a local unit closes but the enterprise continues to trade at other sites, a death will not be recorded in this data."

Counts of deaths of enterprises for 2008
England North East Cambridgeshire
5914 Motion picture projection activities 25 0

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
502 c593W; 303714
Session
2009-10
Subjects
Business Closures Cinemas
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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