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	date	04/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	New Businesses: Wealden
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many new businesses have been set up in Wealden constituency since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Wealden
	tabling member printed	Nusrat Ghani
	uin	25965
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text There is no single data source that comprehensively measures all business start-ups within the UK. However, ONS has published statistics showing that there were 2,770 businesses newly registered for VAT or PAYE in the Wealden constituency between 2010 and 2014. Some newly registered businesses will have been trading for a number of years and other active businesses will not be covered because they are operating below the VAT and PAYE registration thresholds. answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 12/02/2016 14:27:33 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani

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	date	09/07/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Non-domestic Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of business rates on micro-businesses.
	tabling member constituency	Wealden
	tabling member printed	Nusrat Ghani
	uin	6340
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>The government recognises that business rates represent a fixed cost which can be more burdensome during times of economic difficulty, particularly for small businesses.</p><p> </p><p>This is why, at Autumn Statement 2014, the Chancellor announced a £1 billion package of business rates support measures, with a focus on small businesses.</p><p> </p><p>This package included doubling the Small Business Rate Relief scheme until April 2016 supporting 575,000 businesses operating from single small properties.</p><p> </p><p>The impact of business rates on the smallest businesses is also one of the issues that will be considered under the fundamental review of the business rates system which the Chancellor launched in March 2015 and is due to report by the end of 2015.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 15/07/2015 14:13:34 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani