Business Links

Mrs. Roche
To ask the President of the Board of Trade how many inquiries business links handled in the last year for which figures are available. [11962]

Mr. Page
During the period October 1994 to September 1995, business links provided advice and information to the following numbers of companies: October?December 1994: 26,624January?March 1995: 33,035April?June 1995: 41,222July?September 1995: 51,931Each company is counted only once each quarter. To the extent that some companies may seek information and advice more than once in each quarter the total number of inquiries dealt with will be higher than above.