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.
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.