Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what data her Department holds on the number of high-growth businesses in the UK in each year since 2005.

Data on UK high-growth businesses is published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). These data are published on an ad-hoc basis and cover the period back to 2010. The ONS defines a business as high-growth if it experiences 20% annual growth rate of either employment or turnover for three consecutive years.

Ad-hoc publications are among the ‘user requested data’ published here.