The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many people were employed in the (a) brewing and (b) public house sectors in each year since 1998. (260494)
The available information for people aged 16 and over is provided in the attached table.
The estimates are derived from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). These estimates are based on the respondents' views about the organisation for which they work.
As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty.
The figures have been derived from the LFS microdata which are weighted using the official population estimates published in autumn 2007. Consequently the 2008 estimate is not entirely consistent with the figures published in the monthly Labour Market Statistics First Release, which are weighted using more up-to-date population estimates.
Thousand Brewing1 Public house2 1998 45 256 1999 39 254 2000 34 232 2001 29 241 2002 32 253 2003 34 244 2004 34 262 2005 23 252 2006 23 252 2007 27 263 2008' ***24 **211 1 Comprises Standard Industrial Classification (92)—15960 Manufacture of beer. 2 Comprises Standard Industrial Classification (92)—55402 Public houses and bars. 3 Coefficients of Variation have been calculated for the latest period as an indication of the quality of the estimates, as described as follows: Guide to quality: The Coefficient of Variation (CV) indicates the quality of an estimate, the smaller the CV value the higher the quality. The true value is likely to lie within +/- twice the CV—for example, for an estimate of 200 with a CV of 5 per cent. we would expect the population total to be within the range 180-220. Key Coefficient of Variation (CV) (%) Statistical robustness * 0 [le] CV <5 Estimates are considered precise. ** 5 [le] CV <10 Estimates are considered reasonably precise. *** 10 [le] CV < 20 Estimates are considered acceptable. **** CV ≥ 20 Estimates are considered too unreliable for practical purposes. Note: It should be noted that the above estimates exclude people in most types of communal establishment (eg hotels, boarding houses, hostels, mobile home sites etc.) Source: Labour Force Survey.
The information requested falls within the remit of the UK National Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated March 2009:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning what estimate has been made of the number of public houses which have closed in each of the last 10 years for which figures arc available; and to make a statement. (261070)
Annual statistics on business births, deaths and survival are available from the ONS release on Business Demography. Data on business deaths is only available back as far as 2002 in this series. The table below contains the count of enterprise deaths of public houses for 2002-2007.
Standard Industrial Classification 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 55402—Independent public houses and bars 5,530 6,775 6,875 6,175 5,300 5,260 55403—Tenanted public houses and bars 2,150 2,610 2,950 2,590 2,310 2,340 55404—Managed public houses and bars 130 200 255 315 345 350 Total 7,810 9,585 10,080 9,080 7,955 7,950