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(asked on 19th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the oral contribution the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on 12 December 2017, Official Report, column 166, if he will publish the evidential basis supporting the UK's position as No 4 in the world for being the best place to start a business.


Answered by
Margot James Portrait
Margot James
This question was answered on 29th December 2017

According to the World Bank Ease of Doing Business report 2018 the UK is ranked as 4th in the EU for the ease of starting a business and 14th in the world. This is in line with correspondence I have exchanged with the hon. Member for Sefton Central in which I clarified a response I made to this House on 12 December 2017, and I have placed a copy of this correspondence in the Libraries of the House.

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