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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) business start-ups and (b) business closures in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) Tyne and Wear and (iv) the North East in each year since 2010.

The Office for National Statistics’ Business Demography survey details the change in number of UK businesses.

When looking at business start-ups and business closures we look at business births and business deaths. The Office of National Statistics defines business births as new business registrations and business deaths as businesses that have ceased to trade.

The following table gives the number of business birth and deaths in the Jarrow Constituency, South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear Metropolitan County and North East Region from 2010 to 2016.