Hampshire's total economy (worth £22.9bn) is the largest economy in

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outside

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

, providing almost 3% of total

GDP Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and sold (not resold) in a specific time period by countries. Due to its complex and subjective nature this measure is ofte ...

for the UK as a whole.

Economy

See Hampshire#Economy for more information.

Law & regulations

Hampshire

Trading Standards Trading Standards are the local authority departments with the United Kingdom, formerly known as ''Weights and Measures'', that enforce consumer protection legislation. Sometimes, the Trading Standards enforcement functions of a local authority a ...

Service originated from the initial introduction of the

Weights and Measures Act A weights and measures act is a kind of legislative act found in many jurisdictions establishing technical standards for weights and measures. Notable acts of this type include: * Various Weights and Measures Acts (UK) or the various legislative ...

, and is still better known as the Inspectors of Weights and Measures.

Service activities are still primarily enforcement of the

, but also has the following responsibilities, in whole or in part, as of 31 March 1988; * Agriculture Act 1970 (Part IV) * Agriculture Produce (Grading and Marking) Acts 1928 and 1931 * Animal Health Act 1981 * Business Names Act 1985 * Celluloid and Cinematograph Act 1922 *

Consumer Credit Act 1974 The Consumer Credit Act 1974c 39 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that significantly reformed the law relating to consumer credit within the United Kingdom. Prior to the Consumer Credit Act, legislation covering consumer credi ...

Consumer Protection Act 1987 The Consumer Protection Act 1987c 43 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which made important changes to the consumer law of the United Kingdom. Part 1 implemented European Community (EC) Directive 85/374/EEC, the product liability ...

* Control of Pollution Act 1974 * Energy Conservation Act 1981 * Estate Agents Act 1979 * European Communities Act 1972 * Explosives Acts 1875 and 1923 * Fabrics (Misdescription) Act 1913 * Fair Trading Act 1973 * Fireworks Act 1951 * Food Act 1984 *

Hallmarking Act 1973 The Hallmarking Act 1973 makes up the bulk of modern law regarding the assaying and hallmarking of metals in the United Kingdom. Hallmarking is a way to guarantee the purity of precious metals. Metals are tested and, if they meet a certain min ...

* Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 *

Medicines Act 1968 The Medicines Act 1968 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, more properly: An Act to make new provision with respect to medicinal products and related matters, and for purposes connected therewith. It governs the control of medicines for ...

* Motor Cycle Noise Act 1987 * Performing Animals (Regulation) Act 1925 * Petroleum (Regulations) Act 1928 and 1936 *

Poisons Act 1972 The Poisons Act 1972 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (citation 1972 c. 66) making provisions for the sale of non-medicinal poisons, and the involvement of Local Authorities and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain ...

* Prices Acts 1974 and 1975 * Road Traffic Acts 1972 and 1974 * Road Traffic (Foreign Vehicles) Act 1972 *

Telecommunications Act 1984 The Telecommunications Act 1984 (c 12) is an Act of Parliament, Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The rules for the industry are now contained in the Communications Act 2003. Provisions The provisions of the act included the followi ...

* Tourism (Sleeping Accommodation Price Display) Order 1977 * Trade Descriptions Acts 1968 and 1972 * Trading Representations (Disabled Persons) Act 1958 * Trading Representations (Disabled Persons Amendment Act) 1972 * Trading Stamps Act 1964 * Transport Act 1978 * Unsolicited Goods and Services Acts 1971 and 1975 *

Weights and Measures Act 1985 Weights and measures acts are acts of the British Parliament determining the regulation of weights and measures. It also refers to similar royal and parliamentary acts of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland and the medieval Welsh states. T ...

Today the

Hampshire County Council Hampshire County Council (HCC) is an English council that governs eleven of the thirteen districts geographically located within the ceremonial county of Hampshire. As one of twenty-four county councils in England, it acts as the upper tier of ...

Regulatory Services Commission publishes advice on local business advice on its web sit

Small business advice

Advice for new businesses is available from a number of private ventures and government funded schemes. Advice is available from

Business Link Business Link was a government-funded business advice and guidance service established in England in 1992. It consisted of an online portal managed by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and a national telephone helpline. The service's network of ...

, Department of Trade and Industry and the

HM Revenue and Customs HM Revenue and Customs (His Majesty's Revenue and Customs, or HMRC) is a non-ministerial government department, non-ministerial Departments of the United Kingdom Government, department of the His Majesty's Government, UK Government responsible fo ...

Business award schemes

and the Economic Development Office sponsor a number of local business awards.

Business directories

These web sites provide information on local Hampshire businesses (as opposed to UK-wide Business directories);
Hampshire County Council

iHampshire

South Online

Business parks & premises

Andover Andover may refer to: Places Australia * Andover, Tasmania Canada * Andover Parish, New Brunswick * Perth-Andover, New Brunswick United Kingdom * Andover, Hampshire, England ** RAF Andover, a former Royal Air Force station United States * Ando ...

* Andover Airfield Business Park (RDC under construction) * Anton Business Park (light industrial / warehouses) * Basepoint (offices / light industrial) * Commercial Centre (offices / light industrial) * Glenmore Business Park (light industrial) * Portway Industrial Estate (industrial / warehouses) * Walworth Industrial Estate (industrial / warehouses)

Basingstoke Basingstoke ( ) is the largest town in the county of Hampshire. It is situated in south-central England and lies across a valley at the source of the River Loddon, at the far western edge of The North Downs. It is located north-east of Southa ...

* Basing View (offices) * Bilton Ind Easte ( Warehouses and offices) * Chineham Business Park (offices / light industrial) * Crockford Lane (offices / light industrial) * Daneshill East (industrial warehouse) * Hampshire International Business Park (offices / light industrial) * Houndmills Industrial Estate (industrial / warehouse) * Intec Business Park (offices / Technical park) * Kingsland Bersford Centre * Moniton Estate (industrial) * Viables Business Park (offices) * West Ham Industrial Estate (industrial / warehouse)

East Hampshire East Hampshire is a local government district in Hampshire, England. Its council is based in Petersfield. Other towns are Alton and Bordon. The district was originally to be known as the District Council of Petersfield. It comprised 42 seats a ...

* Hazleton Industrial Estate (industrial) * Hazleton Industrial Park (industrial / warehouse) * Petersfield Business Park (industrial / warehouse) * Wessex Gate, Horndean (industrial) * Westfield Estate, Horndean (offices / light industrial)

Eastleigh Eastleigh is a town in Hampshire, England, between Southampton and Winchester. It is the largest town and the administrative seat of the Borough of Eastleigh, with a population of 24,011 at the 2011 census. The town lies on the River Itchen, o ...

* Barton Park (industrial / warehouse) * Boyatt Wood (industrial / warehouse) * Chandlers Ford Industrial Estate (offices / industrial / warehouse) * Hampshire Corporate Park (offices) * Phoenix Park (industrial) * Southampton International Park (offices / industrial / warehouse) * Tower Park (industrial / warehouse) * Turnpike (offices)

Fareham Fareham ( ) is a market town at the north-west tip of Portsmouth Harbour, between the cities of Portsmouth and Southampton in south east Hampshire, England. It gives its name to the Borough of Fareham. It was historically an important manufact ...

* Apex Centre (industrial) * Bridge Industries (industrial / office) * Cams Hall (office) * Duncan Road (industrial / warehouse) * Fareham Enterprise Centre (offices) * Fareham Heights (industrial / warehouse / offices) * Fareham Industrial Park (industrial / warehouse / offices) * Fort Fareham (industrial / warehouse) * Fort Wallington (industrial) * Kites Croft (industrial / warehouse / offices) * Murrills Trading Estate (industrial / warehouse) * Newgate Lane (industrial / warehouse) * Palmerston Lane (industrial / warehouse) * Pennant Park (industrial / warehouse / office) * Portchester Park (industrial / warehouse) *

Segensworth Segensworth is a business park near Whiteley and Fareham in Hampshire in England. At the 2011 Census the business park was included in the Park Gate Ward of Fareham Council. Location Segensworth is located in southern Hampshire between the cit ...

(offices / industrial / warehouse) * Solent Business Park (offices) * Speedfields Park (industrial / warehouse) * Talisman Business Centre (industrial / warehouse)

Gosport Gosport ( ) is a town and non-metropolitan borough on the south coast of Hampshire, South East England. At the 2011 Census, its population was 82,662. Gosport is situated on a peninsula on the western side of Portsmouth Harbour, opposite t ...

* Clarence Wharf (industrial) * Cranbourne Road (industrial) * Fareham Road (industrial / warehouse) * Fort Brockhurst (industrial) * Forton Road (industrial) * Harbour Road (industrial) * Heritage Business Park (freehold) * Quay Lane (industrial) * Westfield Industrial Estate (industrial)

Hart (district) Hart is a local government district in Hampshire, England, named after the River Hart. Its council is based in Fleet. It was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the urban district of Fleet, and the Hartley ...

* Ancells Farm (offices) * Bartley Osborne Way (offices) * Blackbushe Business Park (industrial) * Murrell Green Business Park (industrial) * Pale Lane Farm (offices / industrial / warehouse) * Redfields Park (offices / industrial) * Sandy Lane Business Park (offices) * Waterfront (offices)

Havant Havant ( ) is a town in the south-east corner of Hampshire, England between Portsmouth and Chichester. Its borough (population: 125,000) comprises the town (45,826) and its suburbs including the resort of Hayling Island as well as Rowland's Castl ...

* Aysgarth Road (industrial) * Brambles Business Centre (offices) * Brambles Industrial Estate (office / industrial / warehouse / leisure) * Brockhampton North Industrial Estate (industrial) * Byngs Business Park (industrial) * Kingscroft Business Park (industrial) * Oakwood Centre (offices) * North Havant Industrial Estate (industrial / warehouse) * Parkwood Centre (industrial / warehouse / offices) * Brambles Farm (industrial) * Stratfield Park (industrial) * Waterlooville Industrial Estate (industrial)

Portsmouth Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1997 and is administered by Portsmouth City Council. Portsmouth is the most dens ...

* Acorn Business Park (offices) * Bilton Business Park (industrial / warehouse) * Blueprint (industrial) * Challenge Enterprise Centre (managed offices) * Dundas Industrial Estate (industrial / warehouse) * Fairways Business Centre (industrial) * Farlington Road (industrial / warehouse / retail) * Fitzherbert Industrial Estate (industrial / warehouse / retail) * Flathouse Quay (industrial) * Fratton (industrial) * Limberline Estate (industrial / warehouse) * North Harbour Business Park (offices) * Portchester Park (industrial) * Portsmouth Enterprise Centre (managed offices / industrial) * Quadra Point (industrial / warehouse) * Railway Triangle (industrial / warehouse) * Shawcross Industrial Estate (industrial) * Walton Road (industrial / warehouse) * Warrier Business Centre (managed offices) * Western Road Industrial Estate (industrial / warehouse)

Rushmoor Rushmoor is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district and borough in Hampshire, England. It covers the towns of Aldershot and Farnborough, Hampshire, Farnborough as well as Cove and North Camp. It was formed on 1 April 1974 by the ...

* Bellevue Enterprise Centre (office / industrial) * Bellevue Industrial Estate (industrial) * Blackwater Valley (industrial) * Deadbrook Lane (industrial / warehouse) * Eastern Road (industrial) * Farnborough Aerodrome (research & development) * Holder Road (offices / warehouse) * Invincible Road (industrial) * North Lane (industrial) * Redan Hill Estate (industrial) * Southwood Business Park (offices)

Southampton Southampton () is a port city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. It is located approximately south-west of London and west of Portsmouth. The city forms part of the South Hampshire built-up area, which also covers Po ...

* Bernard Street (offices / warehouse) * Centurion Industrial Park (warehouse / industrial) * City Industrial Park (industrial / warehouse) * Hazel Road & Willments Yard (industrial / warehouse) * Kemps Quay (industrial) * Millbrook Trading Estate (industrial / warehouse / offices) * Millbrook Industrial Estate (industrial / warehouse) * Solent Business Centre (industrial / warehouse) * Trinity Manor Industrial Estate (industrial / warehouse) * Western Docks (industrial / warehouse)

Winchester Winchester is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs Nation ...

* Solent Business Park,

Whiteley Whiteley is a community in the county of Hampshire, England, near Fareham. The development straddles the boundary between two council districts: the Borough of Fareham to the south and east, and the city of Winchester to the north and west. L ...

(offices) * Winnall Industrial Estate (industrial / warehouse) * Bar End Industrial Estate (industrial / warehouse)

External links

Hampshire Business Awards

Hampshire & IoW Sustainable Business Partnership

The Forum Solent Business Park in Fareham
Economy of Hampshire