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Retail Trade: Closures

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 high street shops which have closed in (a) England and (b) North East Cambridgeshire since 1 January 2008 (303715).""ONS does not have statistics on the number of high street shops. 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 retail 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."

Count of deaths of enterprises for 2008—Retail by England and North East Cambridgeshire constituency
		England	North East Cambridgeshire
	Retail	20,765	40
471	Retail sale in non-specialised stores	4,050	10
472	Retail sale of food; beverages and tobacco in specialised stores	3,190	5
473	Retail sale of automotive fuel in specialised stores	425	0
474	Retail sale of information and communication equipment in specialised stores	570	0
475	Retail sale of other household equipment in specialised stores	2,430	5
476	Retail sale of cultural and recreation goods in specialised stores	990	0
477	Retail sale of other goods in specialised stores	6,680	15
478	Retail sale via stalls and markets	250	0
479	Retail trade not in stores; stalls or markets	2,180	5

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

502 c598-600W; 303715

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Business Closures Shops

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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