New Businesses: Bradford

(asked on 2nd March 2015) - View Source

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many new business start-ups there have been in (a) Bradford East constituency and (b) Bradford (i) since 2010 and (ii) from 2005 to 2010.


Answered by
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Matt Hancock
This question was answered on 5th March 2015

Amazingly, data on start-ups is not available for years before 2008. The estimated number of business start-ups in a) the Bradford East constituency and b) Bradford local authority from 2008 and 2014 are shown in the table below.

Year

Business start-ups in the Bradford East constituency

Business start-ups in Bradford local authority

2008

640

3,040

2009

590

3,050

2010

730

3,560

2011

760

3,580

2012

670

3,280

2013

620

3,050

2014

560

2,740

Total for period 2010 to 2014

3,330

16,220

Source: BankSearch: number of new business bank accounts opened. All figures rounded to the nearest 10.

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