New Businesses
Commons · Question 1938 · Tabled 18 May 2026 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record
Answered 26 May 2026
Question
Asked by Jim Shannon
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of regional disparities in business start-up rates across the UK.
Answer
Answered by Blair McDougall, 26 May 2026
Data on regional start-up rates is available via the Office for National Statistics Business Demography publication. Latest data shows that London has the highest rate of business births and Northern Ireland has the lowest. There has been relatively littl...