Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information his Department holds on the number of UK companies which operated employee share schemes in (a) 1988, (b) 1990, (c) 2000, (d) 2010 and (e) 2017.

The number of UK companies that operated each of the four tax-advantaged Employee Share Schemes from 2000-01 to 2015-16 can be found on the gov.uk website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/companies-with-tax-advantaged-employee-share-schemes

Information for earlier years is not available.

Information for 2017-18 is due to be published in June 2019.