Milton Keynes in the top 20 most enterprising locations in the UK during lockdown

Milton Keynes has made it in to the top 20 most enterprising locations in the UK during lockdown.

The data was analysed by the team behind global affiliate network www.Awin.com, who used the Free Company Data Product by Companies House to conduct the research.

From the dataset, the team looked at all businesses registered with Companies House from the 23rd March (beginning of lockdown) to the 30th May (as far as the data currently goes).

Companies monitored include only corporate body types regulated by legislation relevant to Companies House, and does not include all business types (such as sole traders).

Using this data, the team looked at the registered postal town of each business, and accumulated the results, to find the number of companies registered in each town and city during this period, and looked at the top 50 results.

From there, the population of each location was used to determine the number of lockdown businesses registered per person, to find the most enterprising places in the UK.

The data found that Milton Keynes was the 11th-most enterprising, with 341 people in the area for every one business set up

It also found that 29 per cent of all businesses registered with Companies House in lockdown were located in London, Droitwich was uncovered as the most enterprising town in the UK during the lockdown, with the top five as follows:

Michele O’Sullivan, Business Development Director UK at Awin, said: “Whilst the pandemic and ensuing lockdown has proved to be one of the most difficult in history for business, we have still seen a remarkable amount of ingenuity and innovation in this period.

"Our own low cost, and simple to use, self-managed solution for startups and entrepreneurs– Awin Access – has been utilised by many businesses, new and old, over this hard period."