Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 676

Small Businesses

Tabled: 18 July 2024
Answered: 23 July 2024

Question

Jerome Mayhew

ConservativeBroadland and Fakenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what employee thresholds his Department uses to classify what is a (a) micro, (b) small and (c) medium sized firm.

Answer

Gareth Thomas
Employee thresholds used by this department to classify micro, small and medium-sized firms are shown in the table below:Type of firmEmployee thresholdMicro0 to 9 employeesSmall10 to 49 employeesMedium50 to 249 employees