Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) women's and (b) men's business plans which were approved received a weekly allowance for 26 weeks of a total of £1,274 as part of the new enterprise allowance.

The information is not held centrally. We estimate that developing an appropriate methodology and quality assuring the analysis would exceed disproportionate cost limits.