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To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of regional disparities in business start-up rates across the UK.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 18 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2026
- Answer
- 26 May 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of regional disparities in business start-up rates across the UK.
20 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 May 2026
Answer published
Data on regional start-up rates is available via the Office for National Statistics Business Demography publication. Latest data shows that London has the highest rate of business births and Northern Ireland has the lowest. There has been relatively littl...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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