To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many businesses in (a) Peterborough constituency and (b) the Peterborough city council area (i) started up and (ii) ceased trading in each of the last nine years; and if he will make a statement. (85970)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 16 June 2006, Official Report, columns 1484-85, which contains data for each year starting nine years ago up to the latest available.