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Written question asked by Toby Perkins (Labour) on Monday, 22 October 2012, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 24 October 2012. It was answered by Michael Fallon (Conservative) on Thursday, 25 October 2012 on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.


Business Links

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many start-ups have accessed publicly-funded sources of assistance from the business support finder section of his Business Link website in each year since 2005; and how many such start-ups are still in existence.

[124842]

Answer

The business support finder section of the Business Link website was only launched during November 2011 so I am unable to report traffic to that particular tool back to 2005. I can however confirm that the business support finder received 228,992 visitors during the period November 2011 to October 2012, although it is not possible to report how many of these would have been by start-ups.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
124842; 551 cc1040-1W
Session
2012-13
Subjects
Government assistance New businesses Business links
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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