§ Mr. Stephen O'BrienTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many businesses were helped by each Business Link operator in England in 2001–02. [153577]
§ Nigel GriffithsThe following table shows the number of businessses assisted by Business Link Operators from April 2001 to 31 March 2002.
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Number County Durham 1,585 Northumberland 516 Tees Valley 3,293 Tyne and Wear 3,286 Cheshire and Warrington 3,714 Cumbria 4,916 East Lancashire 2,973 Manchester 10,873 Merseyside 5,860 North and West Lancashire 3,156 North Manchester 2,894 Humberside 5,392 North Yorkshire 7,160 South Yorkshire 3,986 West Yorkshire 14,761 Derbyshire 5,399 Leicestershire 4,425 Lincolnshire and Rutland 4,026 Northamptonshire 2,224 Nottinghamshire 4,659 Birmingham and Solihull 9,179 Black Country 4,645 Coventry and Warwickshire 4,392 Hereford and Worcestershire 4,875 Shropshire 1,629 Staffordshire 5,195 Bedfordshire 1,997
Number Cambridgeshire 2,790 Essex 5,441 Hertfordshire 7,100 Norfolk 3,894 Suffolk 2,746 London 27,090 Berkshire 3,146 Hampshire and Isle of Wight (Wessex) 6,204 Kent 8,063 Milton Keynes, Oxon, Bucks 7,077 Surrey 5,879 Sussex 11,001 Devon and Cornwall 9,872 Dorset (Wessex) 2,659 Gloucestershire 3,509 Somerset 1,979 West 5,699 Wiltshire 4,183 Total 245,342