FOI reference: FOI-2025-2817
You asked
I am hoping to obtain a dataset including information on the number of employees, turnover, size and location of food manufacturing facilities in the UK, classified by local authority.
We said
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request enquiring the number employees, turnover and location of food manufacturing businesses in the UK.
The data you have requested would need to be created by our Inter Departmental Business Register (IDBR) data service team. Such services are subject to disclosure controls, legal frameworks, resources and an agreement of costs, in line with our charging policy. Please contact the relevant team at IDBRDAS@ons.gov.uk to discuss this request further.
As the requested information is reasonable accessible via another route, even if only on payment, the exemption found under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) applies.