Business: Essex

Bob Spink
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many businesses were registered for value added tax in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point in each year since 1997.

Angela E. Smith
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated April 2010:

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning how many businesses were registered for value added tax in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point in each year since 1997. [325846]

Annual statistics on counts of VAT and/or PAYE based enterprises are available for 2009 from the ONS release UK Business: Activity, Size and Location at

www.statistics.gov.uk.

The table below is a subset of this, containing just VAT based enterprise statistics and shows the count of VAT based Enterprises in Essex County and Castle Point for each year from 1997.

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|    |Essex county|Castle Point|
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|1997|42,065      |n/a         |
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|1998|43,625      |2,105       |
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|1999|37,705      |2,130       |
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|2000|38,655      |2,160       |
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|2001|39,100      |2,165       |
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|2002|39,395      |2,190       |
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|2003|39,705      |2,205       |
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|2004|39,435      |2,160       |
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|2005|40,090      |2,160       |
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|2006|40,505      |2,215       |
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|2007|41,065      |2,245       |
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|2008|42,475      |2,295       |
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|2009|42,390      |2,235       |
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