What is the biggest company in the UK in terms of number of workers?

Question

And can you break this down by public and private sector. For instance biggest employer outside of governement may be..BT? (guess) and including government maybe its the Ministry of Defence?

Answer 1

In the private sector, Barclays has 113,000, BP has 103,000 - those are British companies but their employees are not all in Britain, but they are the two biggest British companies I believe.

Answer 2

In the latest reported accounts filed with Companies House (where all UK companies must be registered) it appears that the Compass Group PLC is the largest employer with 410,074 people, ahead of Securicor, Tesco and Unilever (BT are a lowly 17th!!). Compass group are involved in the provision of foodservice and vending foodservice customers whilst at school, in hospital, when travelling, at work or in leisure. The group had a turnover in 2005 of £12.7bn and profit before interest and tax of £300m

As for the Public sector I am unsure, but I assume maybe the NHS or Civil Service.

Answer 3

The NHS is the biggest public sector employer.
Bp is the bigest privat dector employer.

Answer 4

The government. A typical building has about 200 employees and about half of them work there

Answer 5

NHS - biggest in Europe ! although they are laying off thousands now

Answer 6

Dunno. But I do know that the British Government is the 3rd largest employer in the world, behing the Chinese army and Indian railways.

Answer 7

The NHS

Answer 8

mcdonalds

Answer 9

poundland

Answer 10

GEC