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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate he has made of the number of small to medium-sized enterprises that have closed in Feltham and Heston in each of the last 18 months.

The number of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises¹ (SMEs) in Feltham and Heston in March 2021 was 5,150². The number of SMEs in Feltham and Heston in March 2020 was 5,010³. This suggests there was a net increase of around 140 SMEs between March 2020 to March 2021. Data on business closures is not available at the constituency level. Data on SME size and location and data on business closures is not available on a monthly basis”.

¹Business with 0 to 249 employees

²Source: ONS, UK Business: Activity, Size and Location – 2021 (The data contained in this analysis are produced from a snapshot of the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDBR) taken on 12 March 2021. Only VAT and/or PAYE based enterprises are included.) - https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/datasets/ukbusinessactivitysizeandlocation

³Source: ONS, UK Business: Activity, Size and Location – 2020 (The data contained in this analysis are produced from a snapshot of the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDBR) taken on 13 March 2020. Only VAT and/or PAYE based enterprises are included.) - https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/datasets/ukbusinessactivitysizeandlocation