You asked

Please provide data on business births, business deaths and survival rates for SMEs by age of the founder(s)/owner(s).

Also, if available, please provide data on reasons for businesses failing (regardless of age)?

We said

Thank you for your enquiry.

Unfortunately, we do not hold the information requested. We can create this information as a bespoke analysis, showing counts of business births, death and survival rates by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), but we are unable to inform you of the founder(s)/owner(s) age. This is data which is not held on the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR).

Any such analysis would be outside of the Freedom of Information regime and would be subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreement of costs where appropriate. If you require this piece of analysis please can you contact the IDBR Data Analysis Service (IDBRDAS) at IDBRDAS@ons.gov.uk, who will carry out this request on your behalf. For more information about the services we offer, please visit our website.