Activity, size and location

UK businesses broken down by location, industry, legal status and employment, and UK enterprise levels measured by turnover.

Spotlight

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.

A roundup of the latest data and trends on the economy, business and jobs

Business demography, quarterly experimental statistics, UK

Business births and deaths from the Inter-Departmental Business Register with high-level breakdowns by industry and region. Quarterly Experimental Statistics.
UK business: activity, size and location

The data contained in these tables are numbers of enterprises and local units produced from a snapshot of the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) taken on 11 March 2022.
Business demography, UK

Annual data on births, deaths and survival of businesses in the UK, by geographical area and Standard Industrial Classification 2007: SIC 2007 groups.

Business demography, quarterly experimental statistics, UK: January to March 2023

Experimental quarterly statistics on business births and deaths from the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) with high-level breakdowns by industry and region.
UK business; activity, size and location: 2022

UK businesses broken down by legal status, industry, region, employment and turnover size bands.
Business demography, UK: 2021

Annual change in the number of UK businesses broken down by sector of the economy.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) roundup

Catch up on the latest data and analysis related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its impact on our economy and society.