Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have been recipients of the new enterprise allowance in (a) St Helens North, (b) Merseyside and (c) the UK since it began.

The following table gives the number of mentor and business starts for New Enterprise Allowance from April 2011 to June 2015. It is possible that a person may start on the scheme more than once. New Enterprise Allowance is only available in England, Scotland and Wales, therefore figures have been provided for Great Britain, not the United Kingdom. These figures are taken from the published Official Statistics which can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/new-enterprise-allowance-april-2011-to-june-2015.

Notes:

1) Figures are presented for the parliamentary constituency of St Helens North.

2) Figures for Merseyside include the five local authorities of Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St. Helens and Wirral.

3) Figures show the number of starts where people have begun working with a business mentor.

4) Figures show the number of mentor starts that have progressed to set up their own business.

5) Values are rounded to the nearest 10.

6) Following a trailblazer in January 2011, New Enterprise Allowance was introduced in target areas in April 2011, and rolled out nationally from 1st August 2011. This table only includes data from April 2011.

7) Some claimants on Universal Credit (UC) are not captured in the data presented, there may be a small undercount of starts in areas where UC has been introduced.