"Figure 5: Between 2019 and 2020 all regions showed an increase in the numbers of registered businesses apart from the East and Wales","" "Percentage growth by region, UK, 2019 to 2020","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","Percentage" "","" ""," growth 2018 to 2019"," growth 2019 to 2020" "North East","1.5","1.4" "North West","-0.4","0.1" "Yorkshire and The Humber","1.4","1.9" "East Midlands","1.0","2.0" "West Midlands","0.7","3.7" "East","3.0","-0.1" "London","3.2","1.7" "South East","2.6","0.8" "South West","1.2","0.8" "Wales","2.4","-0.2" "Scotland","1.3","0.4" "Northern Ireland","2.0","0.8"