§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the President of the Board of Trade how many employees currently work in firms with(a) one to 10 employees, (b) 11 to 20 employees, (c) 21 to 50 employees, (d) 51 to 100 employees, (e) 101 to 200 employees, (f) 201 to 500 employees, (g) 501 to 1,000 employees, (h) 1,001 to 2,000 employees and (i) over 2,000 employees; how many firms fall into each of these categories; and what percentage of the total number of firms is covered by each of these categories. [20854]
§ Mr. PageFigures are not available by these size classes. The most recent estimates of the number of firms by employee size class are shown in the table.
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Table 1: Number of employees and businesses by size of business, end-1993 Enterprises Size (Employees) Employees Number Number Per cent. 0 0 2,589,416 72.3 1–9 2,348,846 790,509 22.1 10–19 1,438,367 107,012 3.0 20–49 1,766,520 58,817 1.6 50–99 1,294,070 18,882 0.5 100–199 1,197,586 8,726 0.2 200–499 1,495,828 4,902 0.1 500+ 7,530,115 3,205 0.1 All 17,071,332 3,581,469 100 Source:
DTI Small Firms Statistics Unit.