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Hospitality Industry: Closures

Answer

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

Please see the letter attached from the Permanent Secretary for the Office of National Statistics.

The Rt Hon. the Lord Mott OBE

House of Lords

London

SW1A 0PW

02 March 2026

Dear Lord Mott,

As Permanent Secretary of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what assessment has been made of the number of UK hospitality businesses that have ceased trading since November 2024 (HL14742).

Information on the number of businesses which have ceased trading is best obtained from the ONS’s annual business demography release, which has the Inter-Departmental Business Register as its data source. However, the latest year for which figures are available from this data source is 2024.

The ONS publishes more up-to-date estimates of business closures via our quarterly business demography release. The figures in this release are regarded as ‘official statistics in development’. It is not possible to separately identify the hospitality industry in the quarterly data, but figures are available for accommodation and food as a whole. Table 1 shows the number of business closures in the United Kingdom (UK), from the fourth quarter of 2024 to the fourth quarter of 2025.

Table 1: Number of business closures for accommodation and food businesses

Period	UK	Accommodation & Food Business Closures
Q4 2024	68210	6145
Q1 2025	83050	7895
Q2 2025	73525	6680
Q3 2025	62920	5800
Q4 2025	65750	6485

Source: Official for National Statistics

Yours sincerely,

Darren Tierney

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

HL14742

Session

2024-26

Subjects

Closures Hospitality industry

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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