New Enterprise Allowance
(asked on 11th June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have received the New Enterprise Allowance since its commencement; and how many such people have subsequently (a) returned to jobseeker's allowance and (b) registered with HM Revenue and Customs as self-employed.
The number of New Enterprise Allowance starts since its commencement is regularly published by the Department and can be found at the following link:
The Department has made an assessment of number of New Enterprise Allowance participants returning to any out-of-work benefit, in the following published analysis. This suggests that 78% of people who started drawing the New Enterprise Allowance remained off benefit continuously for 12 months.
With regards to the number registered with HM Revenue and Customs; the Department does not hold individual level data on self-employment with which we would be able to make this assessment.