Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) people and (b) businesses benefited from Enterprise Management Incentives exemptions and reliefs in each year since 2010.

Information on the number of individuals that have been granted options in EMI schemes, the number of businesses where employees are granted options and the cost to the public purse from Income Tax and National Insurance Contribution (NIC) relief is published in the Employee Share Schemes National Statistics Table 6.6 Enterprise Management Incentives. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employee-share-schemes-statistics

This publication covers tax years from 2000/01 to 2016/17 but there is no data for 2014/15.