Cabinet Office written question – answered at on 8 April 2010.
Bob Spink
Independent, Castle Point
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many businesses were registered for value added tax in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point in each year since 1997.
Angela Smith
Minister of State (Third Sector), Cabinet Office, Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Third Sector)
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated April 2010:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning how many businesses were registered for value added tax in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point in each year since 1997.
Annual statistics on counts of VAT and/or PAYE based enterprises are available for 2009 from the ONS release UK Business: Activity, Size and Location at
The table below is a subset of this, containing just VAT based enterprise statistics and shows the count of VAT based Enterprises in Essex County and Castle Point for each year from 1997.
| Count of VAT based Enterprises in Essex county and Castle Point from 1997-2009 | ||
| Essex county | Castle Point | |
| 1997 | 42,065 | n/a |
| 1998 | 43,625 | 2,105 |
| 1999 | 37,705 | 2,130 |
| 2000 | 38,655 | 2,160 |
| 2001 | 39,100 | 2,165 |
| 2002 | 39,395 | 2,190 |
| 2003 | 39,705 | 2,205 |
| 2004 | 39,435 | 2,160 |
| 2005 | 40,090 | 2,160 |
| 2006 | 40,505 | 2,215 |
| 2007 | 41,065 | 2,245 |
| 2008 | 42,475 | 2,295 |
| 2009 | 42,390 | 2,235 |
Yes5 people think so
No7 people think not
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