Number of VAT-registered businesses recorded. "Enterprise Directorate: Business Start-ups and Closures: VAT Registrations and De-registrations"
Please note that there will be no further releases of this publication. The Office for National Statistics has released a new National Statistics series on business births, deaths and survival rates named ‘Business Demography’. Business Demography is now the only official source of information on business start-ups and closures.
Source: Business Registers Unit (BRU)
Publisher: Business Registers Unit (BRU)
Geographies: Local Authority District (LAD), County/Unitary Authority, Government Office Region (GOR), National
Geographic coverage: Great Britain
Time coverage: 1994 to 2008
Type of data: Administrative data
