§ Mr. Berminghamasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what measures are used to assess the job creation effect of enterprise zones; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. TrippierRegular annual monitoring of activity in the zones records changes in employment but does not distinguish between new jobs and those transferred from 735W elsewhere. We therefore asked the consultants who have evaluated the enterprise zone experiment in Great Britain to assess changes in employment attributable to the zones. Their report will be published in the near future.