HC Deb 17 November 1992 vol 214 c144W
Mr. Barry Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many small firms have gone out of business in Wales in each of the last five years.

Mr. David Hunt

The information requested is not available. However, VAT registration and deregistration figures, which mainly comprise smaller businesses, are available for each of the years in question and show a net addition of 9,600 VAT registered businesses in Wales for the period 1987–91, bringing the total number of VAT registered businesses in Wales to 86,700.

The number of VAT registrations and deregistrations in Wales for each of the last five years, and the resulting change to the stock of businesses, is as follows:

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