The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many business start-ups there were in City of York local authority area in each year since 2008.
Matthew Hancock
There is no single data source that comprehensively measures all business start-ups within the UK. However, as a near proxy BankSearch collates data on the number of new business bank accounts opened in Great Britain. This can be used as an indicative measure of business start-up activity and is the most comprehensive source available to BIS.
In the following table, estimated numbers of new business start-ups in the York local authority area are shown using the BankSearch data.
|
Year |
Estimated number of business start-ups in York authority area |
|
2008 |
1,100 |
|
2009 |
1,100 |
|
2010 |
1,300 |
|
2011 |
1,400 |
|
2012 |
1,300 |
|
2013 |
1,100 |
Source: BankSearch, number of new business bank accounts opened.