§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the number of unemployed people in the Doncaster and Mexborough areas of South Yorkshire who have been helped to start a business through the enterprise allowance scheme in each year since its inception; and how many of these schemes have failed in each year.
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§ Mr. LeeThe information is not available in the form requested. In the area covered by the Wakefield EAS office which comprises Barnsley, Castleford, Doncaster, Mexborough, Pontefract, Thorne and Wakefield, a total of 7,189 unemployed people have joined the scheme from its inception to the end of the 1988–89 financial year.
In each financial year the figures are as follows:
Financial year Number 1983–84 442 1984–85 628 1985–86 892 1986–87 1,519 1987–88 1,824 1988–89 1,884 Data on business closure are not available below regional level.