Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 70959
Business: Closures
Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 19 September 2025
Question
Lee Anderson
Reform UK — Ashfield
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Office for National Statistics’ dataset entitled Business demography quarterly, UK Quarter 2 April to June 2025 edition, what assessment he has made of trends in
Answer
Dame Angela EagleDefra is aware of the Office for National Statistics' quarterly business openings and closures data. There are many factors unrelated to government policy that might explain why businesses would be shown as "closing" in the data source, includin...
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