§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many enterprise allowances were granted in each training and enterprise council area and in each standard region in the 1992–93 financial year; in how many such cases the term of the allowance was completed; and in how many cases the enterprise allowance resulted in the continuation of a business after completion.
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§ Miss WiddecombeThe business start-up scheme replaced the enterprise allowance scheme in April 1991. Table 1 gives the number of business start-up scheme starts in 1992–93 for each training and enterprise council—TEC —and region in England and Wales.
Information about whether the period of allowances was completed is not held centrally.
Information on the continuation of business is not available for individual TECs, but is available regionally from special surveys. The latest figures cover starts in April and May 1991 which were still in business 18 months later in November 1992. These are shown in table 2.
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Table 1 BSUS: Cumulative starts by TEC 1992–93 Numbers Hampshire 1,160 Heart of England 130 Isle of Wight 100 Kent 820 Milton Keynes 130 Surrey 270 Sussex 300 Thames Valley 450 REGION TOTAL 3,370 AZTEC 340 North London 430 North West London 230 CILNTEC 440 Central London 400 London East 310 SOLOTEC 680 West London 350 South Thames 550 REGION TOTAL 3,730 Bedfordshire 180 Central and South Cambridgeshire 180 Greater Peterborough 150 Suffolk 460 Norfolk and Waveney 690 Essex 380 Hertfordshire 430 REGION TOTAL 2,460 Avon 320 Devon/Cornwall 1,510 Dorset 320 Gloucester 690 Somerset 200 Wiltshire 560 REGION TOTAL 3,600 Birmingham 840 Central England 430 Coventry/Warwickshire 660 Dudley 210 Hereford and Worcester 350 Sandwell 210 Shropshire 280 Staffordshire 500 Walsall 140 Wolverhampton 240 REGION TOTAL 3,830 North Derbyshire 290 South Derbyshire 400 Leicestershire 1,020 Lincolnshire 610 Northamptonshire 380 Greater Nottinghamshire 700
Numbers North Nottinghamshire 440 REGION TOTAL 3,830 Brad ford 570 Calderdale/Kirklees 380 Humberside 750 Leeds 540 Rotherham 300 Sheffield 600 Wakefield 200 Barnsley/Doncaster 780 North Yorkshire 980 REGION TOTAL 5,100 Bolton/Bury 350 Rochdale 110 Stockport/High Peak 330 Wigan 300 Oldham 150 South and East Cheshire 180 Central Manchester 1,020 REGION TOTAL 2,440 North Cheshire 400 Merseyside 1,140 Cumbria 350 East Lancashire 440 West Lancashire 380 CEWTEC (Cheshire/Wirral) 480 QUALITEC (St. Helens) 220 REGION TOTAL 3,410 County Durham 570 Northumberland 250 Teesside 510 Tyneside 390 Wearside 170 REGION TOTAL 1,890 Gwent 450 Mid. Glamorgan 370 North East Wales 170 North West Wales 400 Powys 190 South Glamorgan 300 West Wales 800 REGION TOTAL 2,680 Source: TEC Operating Agreement (Annex J) and Welsh Office MIS. Note: The sum of TEC total will not necessarily add up to regional totals due to independent rounding.
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Table 2 BSUS: 18 month business survival rates for starts in April and May 1991 by region Survival rates1 (per cent.) South East 73 London 71 South West 70 Eastern2 72 East Midlands2 West Midlands 72 Yorkshire and Humberside 72 Greater Manchester 68 North West 69 Northern 76 Wales 74 1 November 1992 survey of people who started in April/May 1991 and were still in business 18 months later.
2 Due to small sample sizes a combined survival rate is given for the Eastern and East Midlands regions.
Source: The November 1992 Business Start-Up Scheme 18 Month Follow-Up Survey.