Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of business start-ups in (a) the Telford constituency, (b) Telford and Wrekin borough, (c) Shropshire and (d) the West Midlands in each year since 2010.

The Office for National Statistics’ Business Demography survey details the change in number of UK businesses.

When looking at business start-ups we look at business births. The Office of National Statistics defines business births as new business registrations.

The following table gives the number of business births in the Telford Constituency, Telford and Wrekin Borough, Shropshire and the West Midlands from 2010 to 2016.