§ Mr. SproatTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list(a) the number of occasions, in each of the last 10 years, when an inquiry has been set up under section 17 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 and its predecessor section and Act, to consider cases where persons claiming to be self-employed were considered by his Department to be employed and (b) the number of occasions when, on receipt of the inquirer's report, the original decision of his Department that the person was not self-employed but employed was overturned.
§ Miss WiddecombeInformation is not held in the precise form requested. Such information as is available is in the table.
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(1) Financial year (2) Number of Decisions on Employment Status (3) Number of Inquiries on Employment Status (4) Number of Decisions where Department's "Employed" View Overturned after Inquiry 1982–83 40 40 1 1983–84 42 40 2 1984–85 65 64 3 1985–86 43 40 5 1986–87 45 39 3 1987–88 67 36 8 1988–89 61 50 8 1989–90 54 36 6 1990–91 67 45 15 1991–92 58 34 11 TOTAL 542 424 62 (14.6 per cent.) Note: Column (3)—it is not possible to indentify separately those inquiries set up to consider cases where persons claiming to be self-employed were considered by the Department to be employed.