§ Mr. Flight:To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to his answer of 20 January 2003, Official Report,column 57W, on PAYE schemes with one or 18W two employees, how many such schemes there were for each year from 1999–2000 onwards for companies only, excluding unincorporated businesses. [131397]
§ Dawn Primarolo:The information is in the table.
PAYE schemes live at April: Number of PAYE schemes with one or two employees123 2003 396,000 2002 366,000 2001 353,000 2000 334,000 1Companies only.
2 Figures have been rounded to the nearest thousand.
3 Schemes live at a particular date have been classified by the number of employees shown on the most recent end-of-year returns submitted by employers. The number of employees may not be available for newly set up schemes at each of these dates.