New Enterprise Allowance

(asked on 4th September 2018) - View Source
Questioner
Adam Afriyie Portrait
Adam Afriyie
(Conservative - Windsor)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse has been of the New Enterprise Allowance in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Lord Sharma Portrait
Lord Sharma
This question was answered on 19th September 2018

Between April 2011 and December 2017, New Enterprise Allowance has supported over 113,000 people to start their own business.

The Departmental spend on New Enterprise Allowance (NEA), comprising contracted mentoring costs and Allowance payments to participants who had started to trade from 2013/14 is set out in the table below:

£m

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

Total NEA spend

58.8

44.2

20.2

29.1

22.1

Notes:

The reducing spend reflects:

  1. Rising employment rates
  2. The introduction of the Link Up Start Up (LUSU) workshop in April 2017 (to assess the viability of a claimant’s business) prior to starting on NEA
  3. A refund of costs in 2015/16 from suppliers from the Grant Funded phase of the NEA which ended in December 2014.
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