Businesses broken down by name, phone number, email, contact name, and city

Release date:
2 July 2021

You asked

We are requesting for the following information in Excel formats for all:

  1. Agriculture and Mining businesses in the UK by (Business name, Phone number, email, Contact Name, Location city)

  2. Oil and Gas companies in the UK by (Business name, Phone number, email, Contact Name, Location city)

  3. Bakery and confectionery business in the UK (Business name, Phone number, email, Contact Name, Location city)

  4. Consulting companies in the UK (Business name, Phone number, email, Contact Name, Location city)

  5. Construction and Engineering companies in the UK by (Business name, Phone number, email, Contact Name, Location city)

  6. Legal Services companies in the UK (Business name, Phone number, email, Contact Name, Location city)

  7. Information Technology companies in the UK (Business name, Phone number, email, Contact Name, Location city)

  8. Financial Services companies in the UK (Business name, Phone number, email, Contact Name, Location city)

  9. Aerospace companies in the UK (Business name, Phone number, email, Contact Name, Location city)

  10. Pharmaceutical companies in the UK (Business name, Phone number, email, Contact Name, Location city)

This information is mainly needed for research and product development purposes.

We said

Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request.

Unfortunately, we are unable to publish the data you have requested as it is considered personal information. Section 39 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (SRSA) renders it an offence to disclose information held by the Statistics Board for statistical purposes that would identify an individual or a body corporate. As we are prohibited by law from publishing statistics in which individual businesses can be identified, we find that Section 44 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) applies. Section 44 is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.

For information, ONS produce an annual publication called UK Business: Activity, size and location. This publication breaks down the number of UK Businesses (registered for VAT and/or PAYE)  by geography, employment size-band, industry and legal status. It is created using an extract of the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDBR) taken on 13th March 2020.

If you require any further analysis or information, please feel free to contact the Inter-Departmental Business Register Data Analysis Service (IDBRDAS) at IDBRDAS@ons.gov.uk

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