Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) women and (b) men are recipients of the new enterprise allowance.

Official Statistics on the numbers of New Enterprise Allowance mentoring starts and financial support starts are published quarterly and can be accessed via the link below.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/pre-work-programme-and-get-britain-working#new-enterprise-allowance-statistics

These statistics include a breakdown of starts by gender.