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Businesses

Answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply. Letter from Stephen Penneck, Director General for ONS, to Lord Bates, dated March 2010. As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many businesses were registered in each region and country in the United Kingdom in (a) 1997, (b) 2006 and (c) 2009. (HL2752) Data are available from 2000 onwards and relate to March each year. The table below contains statistics for the UK, each region and each country for 2000, 2006 and 2009.

Counts of Enterprises by Region and Country
	2000	2006	2009
North-East	49,000	52,865	57,425
North-West	186,180	199,990	211,915
Yorkshire and the Humber	134,760	147,510	152,475
East Midlands	126,865	140,245	147,980
West Midlands	155,795	170,085	177,195
East of England	189,780	206,445	217,925
London	312,870	315,725	339,185
South-East	297,815	321,380	337,380
South-West	175,000	191,985	202,550
England Total	1,628,065	1,746,230	1,844,030
Wales	83,760	90,410	92,005
Scotland	132,560	136,930	145,745
Northern Ireland	62,030	67,920	70,620
United Kingdom	1,906,415	2,041,490	2,152,400

Table 1: Average net weekly equivalised household income in the City of York Parliamentary constituency area, 2001-02 and 2007-08 1,2
		£ per week
	Mean income (before housing costs)³	Mean income (after housing costs)³
(a) In current prices4
2001-02	360	330
2007-08	470	380
(b) In 2007-08 prices
2001-02	410	370
2007-08	470	380

"¹ Incomes are presented net of income tax payments, national insurance contributions and council tax.""² Figures rounded to the nearest £10.""³ Housing costs include rent (gross of housing benefit), water charges, mortgage interest payments, structural insurance, ground rent and service charges.""4 Current prices are the prices as they were at the time of the survey. For example, data for 2001-02 are in 2001/02 prices and data for 2007/08 are in 2007/08 prices.""Source: Office for National Statistics" "² Figures rounded to the nearest £10.""³ Housing costs include rent (gross of housing benefit), water charges, mortgage interest payments, structural insurance, ground rent and service charges.""4 Current prices are the prices as they were at the time of the survey. For example, data for 2001-02 are in 2001/02 prices and data for 2007/08 are in 2007/08 prices.""Source: Office for National Statistics" "³ Housing costs include rent (gross of housing benefit), water charges, mortgage interest payments, structural insurance, ground rent and service charges.""4 Current prices are the prices as they were at the time of the survey. For example, data for 2001-02 are in 2001/02 prices and data for 2007/08 are in 2007/08 prices.""Source: Office for National Statistics" "4 Current prices are the prices as they were at the time of the survey. For example, data for 2001-02 are in 2001/02 prices and data for 2007/08 are in 2007/08 prices.""Source: Office for National Statistics" "Source: Office for National Statistics"

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

2752; 718 c151-2WA

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Business

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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