§ Ms. Richardsonasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many (a) women and (b) men applied to start their own business under the enterprise allowance scheme in each of the past years since 1983; and how many (i) women and (ii) men were given an allowance award for each of these years.
§ Mr. NichollsThe number of entrants to the enterprise allowance scheme for each year since 1983 is shown below, by sex. The number of applications received during the same periods is also shown, but no analysis of these by sex is available.
1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 Total number of applications 37,922 53,939 68,280 103,193 Entrants 27,629 46,037 60,036 86,751 Female entrants 4,034 9,392 14,579 22,902 Male entrants 23,595 36,645 45,507 63,849