§ 62. Mr. Richard PageTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the number of new businesses assisted by enterprise agencies in 1987.
§ Mr. CopeLocal enterprise agencies are independent organisations accountable to their own boards and sponsors. This Department does not have comprehensive information on the number of new businesses they assist. Business in the Community's most recent survey of agencies, undertaken in spring 1986, showed that 118 agencies responding to a question on business start-ups claimed to have helped create more than 10,000 new businesses.