Business: Closures
Commons · Question 70959 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 19 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Lee Anderson
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Office for National Statistics’ dataset entitled Business demography quarterly, UK Quarter 2 April to June 2025 edition, what assessment he has made of trends in
Answer
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 19 Sep 2025
Defra is aware of the Office for National Statistics' quarterly business openings and closures data. There are many factors unrelated to government policy that might explain why businesses would be shown as "closing" in the data source, includin...