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Margot James MP Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy 1 Victoria Street London SW1H 0ET T E +44 (0) 20 7215 5000 enquiries@beis.gov.uk W www.gov.uk 28 December 2017 Bill Esterson MP House of Commons London SW1A 0AA Dear Bill I am writing to clarify my response to you during the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s Oral Parliamentary Questions on 12 December 2017.
On the point of small business support and the UK’s international rankings for starting a business, I made an incorrect reference.

I would like to clarify that I was referring to the World Bank Ease of Doing Business report 2018, in which the UK is actually ranked as 4th in the EU for the ease of starting a business and 14th in the world.
Further, regarding entrepreneurship in the UK, the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute’s Global Entrepreneurship Index 2017 ranks the UK as the 5th most entrepreneurial economy in Europe and the 8th in the world.

I am placing a copy of this letter in the Libraries of both Houses for other Members to note.

MARGOT JAMES MP Minister for Small Business, Consumers & Corporate Responsibility