As the number of private sector businesses have reached a record of 5.4 million, we look at how they have grown.
SME summary of 2015
As the number of private sector businesses have reached a record of 5.4 million, we look at how they have grown.
The overall business population includes three main legal forms:
60% - small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) accounted for more than half of employment in the UK
15.6 million - the number of staff employed by SMEs
Sources:
• http://www.fsb.org.uk/media-centre/small-business-statistics
• http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://stats.bis.gov.uk/ed/sme/Stats_Press_release_2009.pdf
• https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/small-business-survey-2014-data-for-all-businesses
• http://www.fsb.org.uk/docs/default-source/fsb-org-uk/fsb-small-business-index-(sbi)-q4-2015a67087ba4fa86562a286ff0000dc48fe.pdf?