You asked:
Please provide the following information:
How many welding or metal fabrication companies have been formed each year for the past 10 years.
How many welding or metal fabrication companies have closed down each year in the past 10 years
All based on companies registered in England.
We said:
Thank you for your enquiry. Your request requires births and deaths of welding or metal fabrication companies in England for the last ten years. These data are not in our publication but could be produced for you by our bespoke data analysis service.
This service may be chargeable. The following link outlines possible costs for producing data analysis. Please refer to the “Business register charge rates" PDF on the right hand side of the following link:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/whatwedo/statistics/publicationscheme
If you would like to discuss the request further please e-mail idbrdas@ons.gov.uk.
As this information is already available to you via this route, we consider that s.21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S.21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.