Business
Cabinet Office
Anne-Marie Morris (Newton Abbot, Conservative)
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what recent estimate has been made of the number of (a) micro, (b) small and (c) medium-sized businesses in (i) Newton Abbott constituency, (ii) Devon and (iii) the South West.
Nick Hurd (Parliamentary Secretary (Civil Society), Cabinet Office; Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner, Conservative)
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated January 2012
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning what recent estimate has been made of the number of (a) micro, (b) small and (c) medium-sized businesses in (i) Newton Abbott constituency, (ii) Devon and (iii) the South West.
Annual statistics on the number of enterprises are available from the ONS release UK Business: Activity, Size and Location at
The following table contains the latest statistics available, which show the number of enterprises in South West, Devon County and Newton Abbot by employee size band.
| Count of enterprises in the South West, Devon County and Newton Abbot by employee size bands for 2011 | ||||
| 0-9 (micro) | 10-49 (small) | 50-249 (medium) | Total | |
| South West | 176,610 | 16,700 | 2,680 | 195,990 |
| Devon County | 30,350 | 2,670 | 385 | 33,405 |
| Newton Abbot | 2,540 | 285 | 50 | 2,875 |
| Note: The above figures have been rounded to the nearest 5, to avoid disclosure. | ||||