Hugo Swire
Conservative, East Devon
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list for (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales, (d) Northern Ireland, (e) each English region and (f) each local authority in the United Kingdom, the percentage of businesses surviving three years for the latest period for which figures are available.
Nigel Griffiths
Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry
We estimate survival rates on the basis of businesses registering for VAT who are still registered three years after. These data are available at Business Link, Training and Enterprise Council and Local Enterprise Company level. Data at local authority level are not available. The latest data relate to 1996 registrants and are set out in the table.
| Percentage | |
|---|---|
| Scotland | 61.2 |
| England | 62.4 |
| Wales | 63.1 |
| Northern Ireland | 70.1 |
| North-east | 61.4 |
| County Durham | 61.6 |
| Northumberland | 65.7 |
| Tees Valley | 60.8 |
| Tyne and Wear | 60.3 |
| North-west | 60.1 |
| Cheshire and Warrington | 63.6 |
| Manchester | 55.8 |
| Cumbria | 65.8 |
| East Lancashire | 60.4 |
| North Manchester | 57.8 |
| Merseyside | 63.0 |
| West and north Lancashire | 59.5 |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | 60.8 |
| Humberside | 61.9 |
| North Yorkshire | 66.2 |
| South Yorkshire | 59.7 |
| West Yorkshire | 58.8 |
| East Midlands | 61.2 |
| Derbyshire | 62.8 |
| Leicestershire | 61.2 |
| Lincolnshire | 61.8 |
| Northamptonshire | 61.7 |
| Nottinghamshire | 58.9 |
| West Midlands | 61.3 |
| Birmingham and Solihull | 55.3 |
| Coventry and Warwickshire | 65.7 |
| Herefordshire and Worcestershire | 67.5 |
| Shropshire | 64.4 |
| Staffordshire | 61.2 |
| The Black Country | 58.4 |
| Eastern | 65.3 |
| Bedfordshire | 63.3 |
| Cambridgeshire | 65.4 |
| Essex | 63.6 |
| Hertfordshire | 67.5 |
| Norfolk | 66.2 |
| Suffolk | 65.9 |
| London | 59.5 |
| South-east | 66.2 |
| Berkshire | 64.4 |
| Hampshire | 67.1 |
| Kent and Medway | 64.6 |
| Oxfordshire/Milton Keynes/Bucks | 66.9 |
| Surrey | 67.6 |
| Sussex | 66.0 |
| South-west | 65.0 |
| Dorset | 63.7 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 64.1 |
| Gloucestershire | 65.0 |
| Somerset | 68.1 |
| West | 63.1 |
| Wiltshire and Swindon | 68.9 |
| Celtec | 62.7 |
| Mid Wales | 68.3 |
| South-east Wales | 62.9 |
| West Wales | 61.2 |
| Argyll and Bute | 65.5 |
| Ayrshire | 62.7 |
| Borders Enterprise | 67.8 |
| Caithness and Sutherland | 66.4 |
| Dumbarton | 61.3 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 71.3 |
| Fife | 60.6 |
| Forth Valley | 61.0 |
| Glasgow Development Agency | 49.1 |
| Grampian | 68.6 |
| Inverness and Nairn | 61.9 |
| Lanarkshire | 51.8 |
| Lochaber | 77.7 |
| Lothian and Edinburgh | 63.9 |
| Moray Badenoch and Strathspey | 76.8 |
| Orkney | 68.7 |
| Renfrewshire | 57.0 |
| Ross and Cromarty | 75.6 |
| Shetland | 76.0 |
| Skye and Lochalsh | 57.8 |
| Tayside | 65.4 |
| Western Isles | 75.6 |
Source:
Small Business Service April 2001
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