list of employers by size of employees

Submitted by emma pawson on Tue, 07/01/2014 - 10:00 | Updated on Mon, 21/07/2014 - 14:11
On behalf of PHE (Public Sector Organisation)
Government
Status: 
Closed
Outcome: 
Data cannot be released
Notes: 

I made a mistake with the label. 

Data is available from a number of sources:

UK Companies Data

http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/toolsToHelp/freePublicDataProduct.shtml - You can find all registered companies in the UK on the Companies House website

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/taxonomy/index.html?nscl=Employment+Type – You can find information on employment and the numbers of people employed by sector at a regional level

Deprivation by Region – (You can find information on deprivation by region at the links below)

http://data.gov.uk/dataset/index-of-multiple-deprivation

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/SIMD

http://wales.gov.uk/statistics-and-research/welsh-index-multiple-depriva...

http://www.nisra.gov.uk/deprivation/nimdm_2010.htm

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/search/index.html?newquery=indices+of+deprivation

Data request description: 
i would like to request a list of all employers in UK by size of the number of staff that they employ. if possible i am also trying to find out which companies employ the greatest number of staff in areas of high deprivation in UK
Suggested use: 
Research
we would like to offer support to companies to improve thier staffs health and wellbeing
Benefits overview: 
we would like to offer support to companies to improve thier staffs health and wellbeing , we would be able to target our support to areas that need it most.
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Review status is wrong

Posted by Owen Boswarva on Wed, 08/01/2014 - 17:31

The data requested (employers by number of staff) is not "already available". The links in the review notes are just a list of general resources on companies, employment and deprivation.

-- Owen Boswarva, 08/01/2014

Update: Review status has been changed to "data cannot be released". Thank you.

(But why can't the data be released? Is it not held by any government department, or is there a barrier such as commercial confidentiality? I should think the necessary underlying data is most likely held by HMRC rather than BIS or DWP as suggested by the requestor.)

-- Owen Boswarva, 10/01/2014

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Data held by government is confidential

Posted by frances sly on Fri, 28/03/2014 - 12:00

ONS has a business register (the Inter Departmental Business Register) from which it publishes a variety of aggregate statistics by size band of employer. The information about individual employers is collected on a confidential basis and only anonymised datasets can be made available.

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Every little helps?

Posted by markbraggins on Tue, 28/01/2014 - 08:48

It's not exactly what was requested - and obviously covers just a specific area - but thought it worth mentioning that major private sector employers for Hampshire is available as open data. This includes estimated number of employees: http://www3.hants.gov.uk/opendata/datasets/major_ps_employers_in_hampshire.htm (don't think it's listed on data.gov.uk et - will be shortly!)

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