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.
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.