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UK business; activity, size and location: 2022
What's in the bulletin?
- The number of Value Added Tax (VAT) and/or Pay As You Earn (PAYE) businesses in the UK as of March 2022 was 2.768 million, a small increase of 0.1% from 2.765 million in March 2021.
- The number of companies and public corporations has continued to rise and represents 74.4% of total UK businesses, while the proportion of sole proprietors and partnerships has fallen to 22.0%.
- The largest industry group is still professional, scientific, and technical, making up 15.6% of all registered businesses in the UK; this is down 0.8 percentage points from March last year.
Business demography, quarterly experimental statistics, UK: October to December 2022
What's in the bulletin?
- The number of businesses removed from the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) (business closures) in the UK in Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2022 was 5% lower than in Quarter 4 2021.
- There was a decrease in closures in 6 out of 16 main industrial groups in Quarter 4 2022 compared with Quarter 4 2021, with the most significant decrease coming from transportation and storage.
- The number of businesses added to the IDBR (business creations) in the UK in Quarter 4 2022 was 13% lower than in Quarter 4 2021.
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