Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many small businesses opened in (a) Enfield North constituency and (b) the London Borough of Enfield in the last (i) three, (ii) six, (iii) 12 and (iv) 24 months.

The latest available data shows that at the end of March 2023 in the London Borough of Enfield there were:

- 560 business births in the last three months;

- 985 business births in the last six months;

- 2,035 business births in the last 12 months; and

- 4,720 business births in the last 24 months.

(ONS, Business demography, Quarterly experimental statistics, Low-level geographic breakdown, UK, Q1 2023)