Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many businesses relocated from Great Britain to Northern Ireland in the last four years.

The requested statistics are unavailable as there is no register of UK “businesses.”

There is no mechanism to relocate a UK limited company between jurisdictions. A company must maintain a registered office in the part of the UK in which it was originally incorporated. It is in this jurisdiction that the company remains legally domiciled regardless of where in the UK it might carry out its business activities. To relocate a limited company a new entity would need to be formed and the previous entity closed. No connection between the two would be recorded on the Register of Companies.