The UK is a world leader in clean growth. We have led the G7 in reducing emissions while growing our economy. Delivering clean growth is central to our Industrial Strategy, as one of 4 Grand Challenges – global trends which will transform our future, where we can put the UK at the forefront of the industries of the future.

We want to ensure that the innovative companies we support are visible and championed for their work in developing clean technology of the future, providing them with the opportunity to promote themselves to potential investors.

The Clean Growth Strategy has innovation at its heart, offering over £2.5 billion of government investment for low carbon technology, and we want to highlight the support the government is offering to those businesses delivering low carbon technologies.

This is part of the broader work that the government is undertaking through the Industrial Strategy’s clean growth Grand Challenge, to ensure the UK maximises the economic and commercial benefits of the global transition to a low carbon economy.

In addition to the spreadsheet which illustrates the range of projects which have benefited from government funding since April 2012 we have developed a https://datavis-energyinnovation.beis.gov.uk">data visualisation tool. The tool will showcase companies who have received funding through BEIS directly such as from the Energy Entrepreneurs Fund as well as from Innovate UK and EPSRC which are both part of UK Research and Innovation.

Our hope is that this will bring greater transparency to the actions of government, highlight the support on offer for low carbon technology and interest the following groups:

• investors looking to invest in UK businesses (including in the UK and abroad)
• investors looking for information on the level of support for R&D in the UK
• Department for International Trade and British Trade Posts (to connect companies to international opportunities)
• UK companies (who are seeking partnerships and export opportunities)

The business population estimates for the UK and regions (BPE) provides the only official estimate of the total number of private sector businesses in the UK at the start of each year.

Business population estimates 2021 is the latest in the annual publication of Business population estimates.

This publication differs from other national statistics outputs produced by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) on value-added tax (VAT) traders and pay as you earn (PAYE) employers. The ‘Guide to Business Statistics’ sets out the differences. The business population estimates provide further information by number of employees, legal status, industry and geography.

The Department’s Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008: statement of compliance provides details of officials and ministers who have pre-release access to the Business population estimates for the UK and Regions.

Future release dates will be announced on the GOV.UK release calendar.

The ninth meeting of the Industrial Strategy Advisory Council (ISAC) took place at McKinsey and Company, London on Thursday 25 September 2025.

It was chaired by Dame Clare Barclay DBE and attended by:

• council members
• senior officials
• the secretariat of the ISAC

The Minister for Small Business and Economic Transformation joined the meeting for item 4 of the agenda.

The business population estimates for the UK and regions (BPE) provides the only official estimate of the total number of private sector businesses in the UK at the start of each year.

Business population estimates 2020 is the latest in the annual publication of Business population estimates.

In 2020, for the first time, the publication reports measures quantifying uncertainty in key estimates of business numbers.

This publication differs from other national statistics outputs produced by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) on value-added tax (VAT) traders and pay as you earn (PAYE) employers. The ‘Guide to Business Statistics’ sets out the differences. The business population estimates provide further information by number of employees, legal status, industry and geography.

The Department’s Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008: statement of compliance provides details of officials and ministers who have pre-release access to the Business population estimates for the UK and Regions.

Future release dates will be announced on the GOV.UK release calendar.

The eighth meeting of the ISAC took place at Old Admiralty Building on Monday 7 July 2025.

It was chaired by Deputy Chair Nancy Rothwell. The Secretary of State for Business and Trade joined the meeting for item 4 of the agenda only.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) publishes details of all spending over £500 using an electronic purchasing card solution (ePCS) on a monthly basis. The ePCS has replaced the government procurement card (GPC).

This data is also available on data.gov.uk:

• https://data.gov.uk/dataset/b6e1afac-1a7a-4c31-ae99-6550b198963a/beis-spending-over-500-also-known-as-epcs-electronic-purchasing-card-solution-or-gpc-government-payment-card">BEIS spending over £500

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) publishes details of all departmental spending, not just that over £25,000, on a monthly basis.

This data is also available on data.gov.uk:

• https://data.gov.uk/dataset/017bb534-28e9-4b58-8032-f70bcfcad1bd/beis-departmental-spending-over-25-000">BEIS departmental spending over £25,000

In February 2023, BEIS was replaced by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and the Department for Business and Trade.

We will continue to report BEIS spending until later in the year.

The business population estimates for the UK and regions (BPE) provides the only official estimate of the total number of private sector businesses in the UK at the start of each year.

Business population estimates 2022 is the latest in the annual publication of Business population estimates.

This publication differs from other national statistics outputs produced by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) on value-added tax (VAT) traders and pay as you earn (PAYE) employers. The ‘Guide to Business Statistics’ sets out the differences. The business population estimates provide further information by number of employees, legal status, industry and geography.

The Department’s Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008: statement of compliance provides details of officials and ministers who have pre-release access to the Business population estimates for the UK and Regions.

Future release dates will be announced on the GOV.UK release calendar.

The Departmental Board provides direction on strategy, performance and risk management.

These terms of reference set out how expert advice and support is provided to ministers and senior officials on the operational implications and effectiveness of policy proposals and corporate functions in BEIS.

See the Departmental Board membership.

The UK innovation survey is part of a wider Community Innovation Survey (CIS) covering European countries. The survey is based on a core questionnaire developed by the European Commission (Eurostat) and member states. This is the tenth iteration of the survey (CIS 10).

Summary of some of the key developments in the UK energy system: how energy is produced and used and the way in which energy use influences greenhouse gas emissions.

The Business population estimates for the UK and regions (BPE) provides the only official estimate of the total number of private sector businesses in the UK at the start of each year.

Business population estimates 2019 is the latest in the annual publication of Business population estimates.

In 2019, for the first time, the statistical release is published in HTML, in addition to PDF format.

This publication differs from other national statistics outputs produced by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) on value-added tax (VAT) traders and pay as you earn (PAYE) employers. The ‘Guide to Business Statistics’ sets out the differences. The business population estimates provide further information by number of employees, legal status, industry and geography.

The Department’s Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008: statement of compliance provides details of officials and ministers who have pre-release access to the Business Population Estimates for the UK and Regions.

Future release dates will be announced on the GOV.UK release calendar.

Data tools

Access the http://njs.analysisoncbas.co.uk/business">data tools

• Data downloaders allow users to download headline data for 2019 and time-series in a quick and flexible manner
• Application Programme Interface (API) instructions explain how to use a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in a specific format to access headline time series and detailed 2019 data

Each government department has published detailed information about projects on the Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP). This includes a Delivery Confidence Assessment rating, financial information (whole life cost, annual budget and forecast spend), project schedule and project narrative.

The data reflects the status of the GMPP at 31 March 2022 and supports the 2022 Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) annual report.

Presents information on selected building materials, including monthly data on price indices, bricks, cement and concrete blocks. It also provides quarterly data on sand and gravel, slate, concrete roofing tiles, ready-mixed concrete and imports and exports of construction products.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) publishes details about staff numbers and payroll costs for payroll and non-payroll staff on a monthly basis.

This data is also available on data.gov.uk:

• https://data.gov.uk/dataset/d9e033b4-e531-4af9-be70-25d9cfa81d1d/beis-workforce-management-information">BEIS: workforce management information

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) publishes details of all departmental spending, not just that over £25,000, on a monthly basis.

This data is also available on data.gov.uk:

• https://data.gov.uk/dataset/017bb534-28e9-4b58-8032-f70bcfcad1bd/beis-departmental-spending-over-25-000">BEIS departmental spending over £25,000

Horizon 2020 is the current EU framework programme for research and innovation and runs from 2014 to 2020. Its predecessor was framework programme 7 which ran from 2007 to 2013. Through this programme, organisations across Europe and wider (including businesses and universities), are able to work together to apply for funding for research activities.

This release shows the number of times UK organisations participated in this programme, as well as the agreed financial contributions from the European Commission to UK organisations as a result of these participations. It contains UK totals, breakdowns by organisation type, funding pillar and regions of the UK, as well as listing the top UK participating organisations. This is based on data extracted from the Commission’s database on 6 March 2018.

The 20th wave of PAT data was collected between 14 and 18 December 2016 using face-to-face in-home interviews with a representative sample of 2,134 households in the UK. Full details of the methodology are provided in the PAT survey technical note.

On 14 July 2016, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) merged with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), to form the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). As such, the survey has now been rebranded as BEIS’s Energy and Climate Change Public Attitudes Tracker (PAT).

User engagement

BEIS is committed to continuous improvement of our statistics. We are keen to understand more about the people and organisations that use our statistics, as well as the uses of our data. We therefore welcome user input on our statistics.

Please let us know about your experiences of using our statistics, whether there are any statistical products that you regularly use and if there are any elements of the statistics (eg presentation, commentary) that you feel could be altered or improved.

Comments should be e-mailed to energy.stats@beis.gov.uk.

This publication provides the final estimates of UK greenhouse gas emissions going back to 1990. Estimates are presented by source in February of each year and are updated in March of each year to include estimates by end-user and fuel type.

When emissions are reported by source, emissions are attributed to the sector that emits them directly. When emissions are reported by end-user, emissions by source are reallocated in accordance with where the end-use activity occurred. This reallocation of emissions is based on a modelling process. For example, all the carbon dioxide produced by a power station is allocated to the power station when reporting on a source basis. However, when applying the end-user method, these emissions are reallocated to the users of this electricity, such as domestic homes or large industrial users. BEIS does not estimate embedded emissions however the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs publishes estimates annually. The alternative approaches to reporting UK greenhouse gas emissions report outlines the differences between them.

For the purposes of reporting, greenhouse gas emissions are allocated into a small number of broad, high level sectors as follows: energy supply, business, transport, public, residential, agriculture, industrial processes, land use land use change and forestry (LULUCF), and waste management.

These high level sectors are made up of a number of more detailed sectors, which follow the definitions set out by the http://www.ipcc.ch/">International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and which are used in international reporting tables which are http://unfccc.int/2860.php">submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) every year. A list of corresponding Global Warming Potentials (GWPs) used and a record of base year emissions are published separately.

This is a National Statistics publication and complies with the Code of Practice for Statistics. Data downloads in csv format are available from the http://naei.defra.gov.uk/data/data-selector">UK Emissions Data Selector .

Please check our frequently asked questions or email Climatechange.Statistics@beis.gov.uk if you have any questions or comments about the information on this page.

Presents information on selected building materials, including monthly data on price indices, bricks, cement and concrete blocks. It also provides quarterly data on sand and gravel, slate, concrete roofing tiles, ready-mixed concrete and imports and exports of construction products.