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Manufacturing Industries: Leeds

Volume 498: debated on Tuesday 27 October 2009

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what proportion of firms in (a) Leeds, West constituency and (b) the City of Leeds are involved in manufacturing. (294024)

Information from the interdepartmental business register on the number of manufacturing enterprises registered for VAT and/or PAYE in the Leeds city council area and the Leeds, West parliamentary constituency in 2009 is given in the following table.

Manufacturing enterprises1, 2All enterprises

Area

Number

Percentage of total

Number

Percentage of total

Leeds City Council

1,550

7.4

20,910

100

Leeds West Constituency

230

13.5

1,705

100

1 UK Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activity (SIC) 2007

2 Business numbers are rounded to the nearest five. These numbers comprise whole business enterprises registered in the appropriate locations, and not branches operating in the appropriate location but with their headquarters elsewhere.

Source:

Office for National Statistics Inter-Departmental Business Register 2009