Self-employed
(asked on 25th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people have been registered as self-employed in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
The answer is provided in the table below.
Tax year | Number of individuals (thousands) |
2004-05 | 4,640 |
2005-06 | 4,710 |
2006-07 | 4,840 |
2007-08 | 4,890 |
2008-09 | not available |
2009-10 | 4,880 |
2010-11 | 5,110 |
2011-12 | 5,490 |
2012-13 | 5,500 |
2013-14 | 5,620 |
2014-15 | 5,600 |
Notes on the Table
Individuals are included here according to whether they completed Sole Trader and/or Partnership schedules in the Self Assessment Main Tax Return, or if they completed relevant parts of a Short Tax Return. Such information is required for all sole traders, and for all shares in partnerships, trading at any time in the tax year.
These estimates are taken from published National Statistics table 3.10, part of HMRC’s Personal Incomes Statistics, for which 2014-15 is the latest available tax year.
The Personal Incomes Statistics are based on the annual Survey of Personal Incomes (SPI), which is based on sample data. As is the case with the published Personal Incomes Statistics, these figures are statistical estimates and will be subject to sampling variation.
For more information about the SPI, please refer to:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-incomes-statistics