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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many limited partnerships have been established in (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales since 2017.

The official statistics on companies and the total size of the register are made publicly available online by Companies House. The most recent data can be found here, and shows that between 2016/17 to 2020/21 inclusive, 9,620 limited partnerships were established in Scotland. The statistics for England and Wales are combined; 4,334 limited partnerships were established in England and Wales in this same period.