Enterprise Allowance Scheme

HC Deb 24 April 1990 vol 171 cc183-4W

64. Mr. Butler

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people have started on the enterprise allowance scheme since it began.

Mr. Nicholls

Over 500,000 unemployed people have been helped to start their own business under the enterprise allowance scheme since it began in 1982. This most substantial achievement is being marked at a special ceremony today.