Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Databases

(asked on 17th April 2018) - View Source
Questioner
Deidre Brock Portrait
Deidre Brock
(Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which (a) external data analysts and (b) data collection companies his Department has used in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Lord Harrington of Watford Portrait
Lord Harrington of Watford
This question was answered on 27th April 2018

Assuming the term “data collection companies” is primarily aimed at firms which have developed or maintained some kind of database to which BEIS has access; the following list of company subscriptions have been taken out or renewed since the start of FY17/18:

BankSearch; BDRC Continental; Beauhurst; BoardEx; Capital IQ; Crunchbase; Dun & Bradstreet; Experian; GTAP; ICIS; IHS Markitt; Manifest; Navigant; Pitchbook; Springwise.

If the “collection” term is widened to more general activities then this would encompass many more companies including Ipsos MORI, NATCEN, Neisr, Mint UK (Bureau van Dijk) etc.

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