Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many new jobs have been created by enterprise zones since 2015.
From January to September 2016, Local Enterprise Partnerships reported that Enterprise Zones had attracted 9,324 new jobs. Monitoring data for the remainder of 2016 will be published later this year.
Local Enterprise Partnerships report that in total, Enterprise Zones have attracted more than 35,000 jobs across England since April 2012.