Written Question·Treasury·UIN 72281

Small Businesses

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 5 September 2025

Question

Callum Anderson

Labour — Buckingham and Bletchley

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the number of small businesses in (a) the UK and (b) Buckingham and Bletchley constituency that operate below the VAT registration threshold.

Answer

Dan Tomlinson
a) The total number of businesses in 2024 is estimated at 5.6 million (see Business population estimates 2024 - GOV.UK, detailed table 2). According to HMRC statistics, there were around 1.3 million business registered for VAT with turnover above the thre...
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