Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 31 October 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many businesses in (a) Wrexham constituency, (b) Wales and (c) the UK were owned solely by women in the last five years.
The most relevant source of information is the BIS Small Business Survey(1). Analysis of the survey data shows that in 2013 there were an estimated 979,000 “majority women owned” small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK, while 31,000 of these were located in Wales.
These estimates are not detailed enough to provide figures for specific parliamentary constituencies, such as Wrexham.
(1) However the survey can be used only to estimate the number of small and medium-sized enterprises (defined as a business with less than 250 employees) rather than all businesses that are “majority women owned” (defined as more than 50% of the business being owned by women).
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