You asked
Please provide a list of accommodation suppliers, e.g. hotels and B&B's in the whole of the UK, with their email address, area of location, room capacity, and business website.
We said
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.
Unfortunately, we would not be able to provide data at an individual business level, as this is deemed to be 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.
Further, we do not hold information on room capacity and business websites. We produce an annual publication called UK Business; activity, size and location (link), these data are taken from the Inter-departmental business register (IDBR) which contains all businesses registered for VAT and/or PAYE. The data for this publication can be accessed via NOMIS, situated under "UK business counts". Standard industrial classification 5510 – Hotels and similar accommodation data can be found at aggregated level down to a low geographical area.
If you require anything further, please don't hesitate to get in contact via idbrdas@ons.gov.uk.