§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if she will give for each region and for Great Britain as a whole for 1991–92(a) the number of people who were receiving payments under the enterprise allowance scheme and (b) the amount of expenditure on enterprise allowance schemes; what information she has on the survival of those businesses; and if she will make a statement.
§ Mr. McLoughlinInformation, by region and for Great Britain as a whole, on the numbers of people receiving the136W enterprise allowance at the end of the 1991–92 financial year is shown in the table. The table also shows EAS expenditure on allowances.
There is no information available on the survival of those businesses starting during the 1991–92 financial year.
Number of People Receiving Enterprise Allowance: 1991–92 Region Participants Payments £000's South East 3,269 11,391 London 4,611 12,697 South West 3,991 9,623 West Midlands 4,173 9,904 East Midlands 4,281 10,576 Yorks and Humberside 4,085 11,154 North West 6,805 16,430 Northern 2,258 6,048 Wales 2,756 7,136 England and Wales Total 36,229 94,959 Scotland 4,000 — Notes:
1. Participant totals as at the end of the financial year.
2. A separate payments figure for Scotland is not available.