NI 172 - Percentage of small businesses in an area showing employment growth

Percentage of VAT registered businesses showing year-on-year employment growth. This indicator will include those businesses registered for VAT with less than 50 employment (around 98% of all VAT registered enterprises). It will measure the proportion of those businesses showing year on year employment growth, where employment is measured as the number of employees (full and part-time) plus the number of self-employed people that run the business.

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

The Places Database

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England

Local Authority District (LAD), County/Unitary Authority, Government Office Region (GOR), National

2008

2002/03 to 2008/09

Annually

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Businesses in VAT exempt sectors and businesses operating below the VAT registration threshold are not covered by this indicator.

At the start of 2006 the VAT threshold was an annual turnover of 60,000 and 1.85 million of the estimated 4.3 million enterprises in the UK were VAT registered.

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