Table 3.
Company type
| Company type | Number | % |
|---|---|---|
| Charitable Incorporated Organisation | 25,044 | 0.51a |
| Community Interest Company | 24,642 | 0.50 |
| Converted/Closed | 1 | 0.00 |
| Further Education and Sixth Form College Corps | 2 | 0.00 |
| Industrial and Provident Society | 183 | 0.00 |
| Investment Company with Variable Capital | 624 | 0.01 |
| Investment Company with Variable Capital (Securities) | 10 | 0.00 |
| Investment Company with Variable Capital (Umbrella) | 74 | 0.00 |
| Limited Liability Partnership | 52,713 | 1.06 |
| Limited Partnership | 54,809 | 1.11 |
| Old Public Company | 26 | 0.00 |
| Other Company Type | 4 | 0.00 |
| Other company type | 13,289 | 0.27 |
| PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of ‘Limited’ exemption) | 40,921 | 0.83 |
| PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) | 107,028 | 2.16 |
| PRIV LTD SECT. 30 (Private limited company, section 30 of the Companies Act) | 17 | 0.00 |
| Private Limited Company | 4,608,200 | 92.98 |
| Private Unlimited | 120 | 0.00 |
| Private Unlimited Company | 4,307 | 0.09 |
| Protected Cell Company | 5 | 0.00 |
| Public Limited Company | 6,116 | 0.12 |
| Registered Society | 11,801 | 0.24 |
| Royal Charter Company | 878 | 0.02 |
| Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation | 5,024 | 0.10 |
| Scottish Partnership | 239 | 0.00 |
| United Kingdom Economic Interest Grouping | 270 | 0.01 |
| United Kingdom Societas | 27 | 0.00 |
| Total | 4,956,374 | 100.01 |
aThroughout, we give figures to two decimal places. This, of course, will create some rounding discrepancies if aggregating such two decimal place numbers (including looking at totals), and means that categories with less than c250 in them will appear as 0.00