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Asked by Andrew GriffithConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 20 December 2024UIN 19442

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many new businesses were registered on Companies House in each month since July 2024.

Answered by Justin Madders

Official statistics on company incorporation are published quarterly. These are made publicly available online by Companies House. We have excerpted and reproduced the relevant figures for your convenience below:

Monthly Incorporation Volumes

Month

Incorporations

Published Incorporations, Quarterly

July 2024

63,820

August 2024

62,956

September 2024

64,907

191,683

The most recent complete datasets can be found here:

Incorporated companies in the UK July to September 2024 - GOV.UK

Statistics for previous periods are available here.

Companies House will publish the next quarterly release on 30 January 2025 which will cover the period from October to December 2024.

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