§ Mr. Sheermanasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make available from the January 1984 survey of those having joined the enterprise allowance scheme, and in respect of only those who were still trading after 18 months, the percentage of those entrants who had been unemployed for more than 12 months prior to joining the scheme by age, sex and marital status.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe January 1984 survey of enterprise allowance scheme participants relates to data collected from a representative sample of those receiving the allowance in the pilot areas in the middle of June 1983. The survey does not provide any information on scheme participants who were still trading after 18 months.
Information from the separate follow-up survey of entrants to the pilot schemes six months after they had left is not at present available broken down in the way requested by the hon. Member. I shall write to him in due course when it has been possible to determine how much information on the basis he has requested can, at reasonable cost, be derived from the survey results.