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(asked on 7th November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate she has made of the number of pubs that have closed in (a) Enfield North constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) London in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Kevin Hollinrake Portrait
Kevin Hollinrake
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 14th November 2023

The latest ONS data[1] (as of 09 November 2023) shows the overall number of public houses and bars in Enfield North, Enfield and London for each of the last 5 years (Table 1).

Table 1: Number of Public House and Bar Local Units, 2019 – 2023

Date

Enfield North

Enfield

London

2019

15

40

2,215

2020

15

45

2,245

2021

15

45

2,225

2022

15

45

2,265

2023

15

40

2,255

Business closures (VAT de-registrations) are not available at this level of industrial and geographical detail. However, the Insolvency Service[2] do publish monthly data on the total number of insolvencies in the food and beverage services sector in England and Wales from 2019 to 2022 (Table 2).

Date

Food and beverage service activities insolvencies

2019

2,150

2020

1,542

2021

1,542

2022

2,523

[1] ONS Business counts via NOMIS. Data relates to SIC 56.302 – Public houses and bars.

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/monthly-insolvency-statistics-september-2023

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