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Question for Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

UIN 32265, tabled on 23 March 2016

Question

Mr Robert Syms
Conservative
Poole
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of public houses which have gone out of business since 1 July 2007.

Answer

Anna Soubry
Conservative
Broxtowe
Commons

Answered on

11 April 2016

The Government does not compile statistics on pub closures and has made no estimate of the number of pubs that have closed.

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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills