Employee Ownership

(asked on 17th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many UK companies benefited from a company share option plan in (a) 1981, (b) 1990, (c) 2000, (d) 2010 and (e) 2017.


Answered by
Mel Stride Portrait
Mel Stride
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
This question was answered on 23rd January 2018

The number of UK companies that operated each of the four tax-advantaged Employee Share Schemes from 2000-01 to 2015-16 can be found on the gov.uk website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/companies-with-tax-advantaged-employee-share-schemes

Information for earlier years is not available.

Information for 2017-18 is due to be published in June 2019.

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