{
 "publisher": "Established Finance",
 "page": "https://establishedfinance.co.uk/data-downloads/",
 "version": "1.0",
 "published": "2026-09-24",
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   "dataset": "bank-rate-history",
   "title": "Bank of England Bank Rate, every change since 1975",
   "publisher": "Established Finance",
   "page": "https://establishedfinance.co.uk/data-downloads/#bank-rate-history",
   "version": "1.0",
   "source": {
    "name": "Bank of England, Official Bank Rate history",
    "url": "https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/database/Bank-Rate.asp",
    "published": "Maintained by the Bank of England; the latest change it lists is shown in the rows",
    "retrieved": "2026-09-24"
   },
   "licence": {
    "text": "Open Government Licence v3.0, per the Bank of England's terms for data in its Database. Copyright the Governor and Company of the Bank of England.",
    "url": "https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/legal"
   },
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     "description": "Date the new rate took effect (ISO 8601), as listed in the Bank of England's table"
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    "Only dates the rate changed are listed. The rate on any other day is the rate from the most recent change before it.",
    "The Bank's table gives two-digit years; 75 to 99 are read as 1975 to 1999 and the rest as 2000 onwards."
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     "date_changed": "2003-07-10",
     "bank_rate_pct": 3.5
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    {
     "date_changed": "2003-11-06",
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     "date_changed": "2004-05-06",
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     "date_changed": "2004-06-10",
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     "date_changed": "2004-08-05",
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    {
     "date_changed": "2005-08-04",
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     "date_changed": "2006-08-03",
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    {
     "date_changed": "2006-11-09",
     "bank_rate_pct": 5
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2007-01-11",
     "bank_rate_pct": 5.25
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2007-05-10",
     "bank_rate_pct": 5.5
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2007-07-05",
     "bank_rate_pct": 5.75
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2007-12-06",
     "bank_rate_pct": 5.5
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2008-02-07",
     "bank_rate_pct": 5.25
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2008-04-10",
     "bank_rate_pct": 5
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2008-10-08",
     "bank_rate_pct": 4.5
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2008-11-06",
     "bank_rate_pct": 3
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2008-12-04",
     "bank_rate_pct": 2
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2009-01-08",
     "bank_rate_pct": 1.5
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2009-02-05",
     "bank_rate_pct": 1
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2009-03-05",
     "bank_rate_pct": 0.5
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2016-08-04",
     "bank_rate_pct": 0.25
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2017-11-02",
     "bank_rate_pct": 0.5
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2018-08-02",
     "bank_rate_pct": 0.75
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2020-03-11",
     "bank_rate_pct": 0.25
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2020-03-19",
     "bank_rate_pct": 0.1
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2021-12-16",
     "bank_rate_pct": 0.25
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2022-02-03",
     "bank_rate_pct": 0.5
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2022-03-17",
     "bank_rate_pct": 0.75
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2022-05-05",
     "bank_rate_pct": 1
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2022-06-16",
     "bank_rate_pct": 1.25
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2022-08-04",
     "bank_rate_pct": 1.75
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2022-09-22",
     "bank_rate_pct": 2.25
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2022-11-03",
     "bank_rate_pct": 3
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2022-12-15",
     "bank_rate_pct": 3.5
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2023-02-02",
     "bank_rate_pct": 4
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2023-03-23",
     "bank_rate_pct": 4.25
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2023-05-11",
     "bank_rate_pct": 4.5
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2023-06-22",
     "bank_rate_pct": 5
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2023-08-03",
     "bank_rate_pct": 5.25
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2024-08-01",
     "bank_rate_pct": 5
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2024-11-07",
     "bank_rate_pct": 4.75
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2025-02-06",
     "bank_rate_pct": 4.5
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2025-05-08",
     "bank_rate_pct": 4.25
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2025-08-07",
     "bank_rate_pct": 4
    },
    {
     "date_changed": "2025-12-18",
     "bank_rate_pct": 3.75
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "dataset": "company-size-thresholds",
   "title": "Companies Act 2006 size thresholds for a single company, before and after April 2025",
   "publisher": "Established Finance",
   "page": "https://establishedfinance.co.uk/data-downloads/#company-size-thresholds",
   "version": "1.0",
   "source": {
    "name": "Companies Act 2006, sections 382(3), 384A(4) and 465(3), as amended by the Companies (Accounts and Reports) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2024 (SI 2024/1303), regulations 9 and 10",
    "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1303/made",
    "published": "SI 2024/1303 made 9 December 2024, in force 6 April 2025",
    "retrieved": "2026-09-24"
   },
   "licence": {
    "text": "Open Government Licence v3.0 (legislation.gov.uk content)",
    "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/"
   },
   "columns": [
    {
     "name": "size_band",
     "description": "micro-entity, small or medium-sized"
    },
    {
     "name": "financial_years",
     "description": "Which financial years the limits apply to"
    },
    {
     "name": "turnover_max_gbp",
     "description": "Turnover limit, pounds"
    },
    {
     "name": "balance_sheet_total_max_gbp",
     "description": "Balance sheet total (gross assets) limit, pounds"
    },
    {
     "name": "employees_max",
     "description": "Average number of employees limit"
    },
    {
     "name": "section",
     "description": "Companies Act 2006 section that sets the limits"
    }
   ],
   "notes": [
    "A company is in a band when it meets at least two of the three limits, and the test runs over two consecutive years, so these figures alone do not settle a company's size. The company size checker applies the full test.",
    "Company limits only. Parent companies are tested on group figures under sections 383 and 466, which have separate net and gross limits.",
    "The limits for financial years beginning before 6 April 2025 are the figures that SI 2024/1303 regulations 9(1), 9(3) and 10(1) replaced in sections 382(3), 384A(4) and 465(3)."
   ],
   "rows": [
    {
     "size_band": "micro-entity",
     "financial_years": "beginning before 6 April 2025",
     "turnover_max_gbp": 632000,
     "balance_sheet_total_max_gbp": 316000,
     "employees_max": 10,
     "section": "384A(4)"
    },
    {
     "size_band": "micro-entity",
     "financial_years": "beginning on or after 6 April 2025",
     "turnover_max_gbp": 1000000,
     "balance_sheet_total_max_gbp": 500000,
     "employees_max": 10,
     "section": "384A(4)"
    },
    {
     "size_band": "small",
     "financial_years": "beginning before 6 April 2025",
     "turnover_max_gbp": 10200000,
     "balance_sheet_total_max_gbp": 5100000,
     "employees_max": 50,
     "section": "382(3)"
    },
    {
     "size_band": "small",
     "financial_years": "beginning on or after 6 April 2025",
     "turnover_max_gbp": 15000000,
     "balance_sheet_total_max_gbp": 7500000,
     "employees_max": 50,
     "section": "382(3)"
    },
    {
     "size_band": "medium-sized",
     "financial_years": "beginning before 6 April 2025",
     "turnover_max_gbp": 36000000,
     "balance_sheet_total_max_gbp": 18000000,
     "employees_max": 250,
     "section": "465(3)"
    },
    {
     "size_band": "medium-sized",
     "financial_years": "beginning on or after 6 April 2025",
     "turnover_max_gbp": 54000000,
     "balance_sheet_total_max_gbp": 27000000,
     "employees_max": 250,
     "section": "465(3)"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "dataset": "size-band-shift-2025",
   "title": "Companies and LLPs expected to change size band after the April 2025 thresholds rise",
   "publisher": "Established Finance",
   "page": "https://establishedfinance.co.uk/data-downloads/#size-band-shift-2025",
   "version": "1.0",
   "source": {
    "name": "Department for Business and Trade, Explanatory Memorandum to SI 2024/1303, paragraph 5.13",
    "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1303/pdfs/uksiem_20241303_en_002.pdf",
    "published": "Laid before Parliament with the Regulations on 10 December 2024",
    "retrieved": "2026-09-24"
   },
   "licence": {
    "text": "Open Government Licence v3.0 (legislation.gov.uk content)",
    "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/"
   },
   "columns": [
    {
     "name": "from_band",
     "description": "Size band under the old thresholds"
    },
    {
     "name": "to_band",
     "description": "Size band under the new thresholds"
    },
    {
     "name": "estimated_companies_and_llps",
     "description": "Government estimate, rounded as published ('around')"
    }
   ],
   "notes": [
    "These are estimates made before the change took effect, not a count of companies that did move.",
    "They include limited liability partnerships as well as companies.",
    "Most small companies could already claim audit exemption before April 2025, so the 113,000 small to micro movers mainly gain the lighter micro-entity accounts regime rather than a new audit exemption. The 14,000 medium to small movers are the ones for whom the change can newly open the small companies audit exemption."
   ],
   "rows": [
    {
     "from_band": "small",
     "to_band": "micro-entity",
     "estimated_companies_and_llps": 113000
    },
    {
     "from_band": "medium-sized",
     "to_band": "small",
     "estimated_companies_and_llps": 14000
    },
    {
     "from_band": "large",
     "to_band": "medium-sized",
     "estimated_companies_and_llps": 6000
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "dataset": "sic-nec-gap-datacity",
   "title": "UK companies under a \"not elsewhere classified\" SIC code, The Data City's figures",
   "publisher": "Established Finance",
   "page": "https://establishedfinance.co.uk/data-downloads/#sic-nec-gap-datacity",
   "version": "1.0",
   "source": {
    "name": "The Data City, \"Companies left in the dark by SIC: uncovering the UK's hidden economy\"",
    "url": "https://thedatacity.com/blog/companies-left-in-the-dark-by-sic-uncovering-the-uks-hidden-economy/",
    "published": "Published 14 December 2022, last modified 24 May 2023 (the page's own metadata)",
    "retrieved": "2026-09-24"
   },
   "licence": {
    "text": "The Data City's figures, quoted with attribution. They are not ours to relicense; cite The Data City.",
    "url": "https://thedatacity.com/blog/companies-left-in-the-dark-by-sic-uncovering-the-uks-hidden-economy/"
   },
   "columns": [
    {
     "name": "measure",
     "description": "What is counted"
    },
    {
     "name": "value",
     "description": "The figure as published"
    },
    {
     "name": "approximate",
     "description": "true where the source says 'around'"
    },
    {
     "name": "source_wording",
     "description": "The source's own words for the figure"
    }
   ],
   "notes": [
    "The 740,000 are part of the 886,106, not in addition to them.",
    "The Data City does not give the exact snapshot date its count was made from. For our own quarterly counts from Companies House snapshots, with file hashes, use the SIC n.e.c. tracker downloads."
   ],
   "rows": [
    {
     "measure": "nec_codes",
     "value": 38,
     "approximate": false,
     "source_wording": "38 'Not Elsewhere Classified' (or n.e.c.) codes used across the 21 sections of the SIC database"
    },
    {
     "measure": "companies_with_any_nec_code",
     "value": 886106,
     "approximate": false,
     "source_wording": "886,106 distinct companies (one in every five in the UK) that are currently classified using one"
    },
    {
     "measure": "companies_with_only_nec_codes",
     "value": 740000,
     "approximate": true,
     "source_wording": "around 740,000 companies in the UK that are 'Hidden'. These are companies that are only classified under n.e.c. codes"
    }
   ]
  }
 ]
}