FOI Reference: FOI/2021/3437
You asked
Can you please supply the following information relating to the SIC codes listed below.
Please make it possible to be able to filter all data be the relevant SIC Codes (i.e. do not lump all data together):
- Number of businesses registered for each of the following the SIC codes
- Number of Employees registered for each of the following SIC codes
- Size of land associated with each of the following SIC codes
- Income band for each of the following SIC codes
- Trend of registered business growth for each SIC code through 2019, 2020, 2021
- Ensure the above data can also be filtered by location in UK nation (England, Scotland, Wales Northern Ireland) and county (if possible)
SIC Codes:
1110 - Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds
1120 - Growing of rice
1130 - Growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers
1140 - Growing of sugar cane
1150 - Growing of tobacco
1160 - Growing of fibre crops
1190 - Growing of other non-perennial crops
1210 - Growing of grapes
1220 - Growing of tropical and subtropical fruits
1230 - Growing of citrus fruits
1240 - Growing of pome fruits and stone fruits
1250 - Growing of other tree and bush fruits and nuts
1260 - Growing of oleaginous fruits
1270 - Growing of beverage crops
1280 - Growing of spices, aromatic, drug and pharmaceutical crops
1290 - Growing of other perennial crops
1300 - Plant propagation
1410 - Raising of dairy cattle
1420 - Raising of other cattle and buffaloes
1430 - Raising of horses and other equines
1440 - Raising of camels and camelids
1450 - Raising of sheep and goats
1460 - Raising of swine/pigs
1470 - Raising of poultry
1490 - Raising of other animals
1500 - Mixed farming
1610 - Support activities for crop production
1621 - Farm animal boarding and care
1629 - Support activities for animal production (other than farm animal boarding and care) n.e.c.
1630 - Post-harvest crop activities
1640 - Seed processing for propagation
1700 - Hunting, trapping and related service activities
2100 - Silviculture and other forestry activities
2200 - Logging
2300 - Gathering of wild growing non-wood products
2400 - Support services to forestry
3110 - Marine fishing
3120 - Freshwater fishing
3210 - Marine aquaculture
3220 - Freshwater aquaculture
We said
Thank you for your request.
We produce an annual publication called UK Business; activity, size and location. The publication is produced in March of each year and contains the number of businesses, registered for VAT and/or PAYE, broken down by geography, Standard Industrial Classification (UK SIC 2007), employment size bands, turnover size bands and legal status. Please note the publication will not include the very small businesses that fall below the VAT and PAYE thresholds.
We have a data service team who can produce a bespoke analysis for you based on the data in the publications from 2019 to 2021. Such services would be subject to legal frameworks, disclosure controls, resources, and agreement of costs. If you would like to request this bespoke dataset, please contact idbr.das@ons.gov.uk to discuss your enquiry further. Please note, there may be a charge for this work which would be subject to our charging policy.
They would be able to help with points 1 and 2 regarding the number of businesses and employees in each of the listed SICS. They would also be able to categorise the data into turnover size bands which would help with point 4. As you would also like this broken down by country and county, it would be helpful if you talked this through with the team and they can suggest the best way for the analysis to be produced and whether this would be better over multiple tables.
We do not hold the data for point 3 regarding the size of land associated with each SIC code. It may be worth contacting the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to see if they hold this information. They can be contacted on the following defra.helpline@defra.gov.uk
Unfortunately, we also do not hold trends of registered business growth (point 5).