Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) targets have been set and (b) rates have been achieved for take up of the enterprise allowance in each Jobcentre district and individual job centre.

We set an ambitious target for the New Enterprise Allowance: to support 40,000 people to set up their own businesses by the end of 2013. Official statistics to the end of December 2013 revealed that this was surpassed. There are no sub-national targets for numbers of allowance starts. The volumes are broken down by Jobcentre District in the following publication, Pre-Work Programme support: New Enterprise Allowance, March 2014 which can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pre-work-programme-support-new-enterprise-allowance-march-2014

A breakdown by Jobcentre Plus office is provided in the accompaning excel document New Enterprise Allowance: Weekly Allowance starts by Jobcentre Plus office - April 2011 - December 2013