§ Mr. Stephen O'BrienTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many businesses have been helped by each of the UK business link organisations; what the average sum of money received by these businesses is; how many of the businesses helped are still operating; and how many of those businesses have increased their profitability. [148190]
§ Nigel GriffithsIn the last full operating year (2002–03) over 300,000 businesses were helped by Business Link Operators (BLOs) in England. A breakdown of this total"by individual BLO—follows. Information about business survival rates are not collected individually.
BLOs do not report on levels of support funding received by the businesses they assist.
A Gross Value Added measure to enable BLOs to quantify—in terms of wealth creation and productivity improvements—the impact of their support to businesses will be available from 2004.
- County Durham—2,834
- Northumberland—2,438
- Tees Valley—3,718
- Tyne and Wear—4,685
- Cheshire and Warrington—6,642
- Cumbria—4,428
- East Lancashire—3,187
- Manchester—11,540
- Merseyside—6,286
- North and West Lancashire—6,435
- North Manchester—5,445
- Humberside—8,817
- North Yorkshire—9,231
- South Yorkshire—5,511
- West Yorkshire—12,335
- Derbyshire—4,631
- Leicestershire—4,409
- Lincolnshire and Rutland—4,720
- Northamptonshire—3,186
- Nottinghamshire—5,592
- Birmingham and Solihull—8,149
- Black Country—5,365
- Coventry and Warwickshire—5,377
- Hereford and Worcestershire—8,489
- Shropshire—3,074
1383W - Staffordshire—6,666
- Bedfordshire—2,400
- Cambridgeshire—3,223
- Essex—8,655
- Hertfordshire—7,281
- Norfolk 3,981
- Suffolk—4,423
- London—32,730
- Kent—10,465
- Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire—10,542
- Surrey—12,199
- Sussex—9,446
- Wessex—15,511
- Berkshire—6,827
- Devon and Cornwall—9,157
- Gloucestershire—4,357
- Somerset—3,047
- West—7,132
- Wiltshire—5,099
- Total—309,665