Public Houses: Closures

(asked on 25th September 2020) - View Source

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 pubs that have closed in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England in each of the last 10 years.


Answered by
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Paul Scully
This question was answered on 30th September 2020

The latest ONS data (as of 28 September 2020) shows the overall number of public houses and bars in Coventry North East, Coventry, the West Midlands and in England from 2010 to 2019. Business closures (VAT de-registrations) are not available at this level of industrial and geographical detail.

Number of Public House and Bar Local Units

Date

Coventry North East

Coventry

West Midlands

England

2010

45

145

3,990

37,775

2011

45

135

3,840

36,455

2012

40

125

3,780

35,900

2013

40

120

3,645

34,670

2014

35

115

3,595

34,255

2015

35

120

3,580

34,215

2016

35

115

3,515

33,585

2017

30

110

3,480

33,045

2018

35

110

3,435

32,960

2019

35

110

3,515

33,305

Source: ONS Business Counts

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