{"value":{"id":76243,"askingMemberId":116,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2014-07-08T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2014-07-14T00:00:00","uin":"204540","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses in England were registered as agricultural businesses in each of the last five years.","answeringBodyId":26,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Business, Innovation and Skills","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":88,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2014-07-14T00:00:00","answerText":"<p> </p><p>Numbers of agricultural businesses registered for either VAT and/or PAYE in England are provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These estimates are drawn from the ONS publication ‘UK Business: activity, size and location', which provides information on the number of active VAT and/or PAYE registered businesses in the UK. Any smaller non-employing businesses that are not registered for VAT will not be included. This publication is available at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href=\"http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/bus-register/uk-business/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/bus-register/uk-business/index.html</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Agricultural businesses in England registered for VAT/PAYE</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>87,985</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>86,695</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>88,325</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>87,775</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>92,115</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>1. The figures are based on all VAT/PAYE registered businesses in the SIC industrial classification sector ‘01 Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities.</p><p> </p><p>2. A small number of businesses were not included on the Inter Departmental Business Register before 2012; the effect at this level of detail is not known but the statistics given here for 2009 to 2011 may be slightly lower than if those businesses had been included.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Agriculture: Business","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/76243","method":"GET"}]}