New Businesses: Government Assistance

(asked on 31st January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding his Department has provided to start-up businesses in (a) St Helens, (b) Merseyside, (c) the North West and (d) England in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Margot James Portrait
Margot James
This question was answered on 3rd February 2017

The Department’s main support programme for start-up businesses is the Start Up Loan programme. The following tables show the number and value of Start Up Loans issued since the programme was launched in 2012.

(a) St Helens

Year

Value (£)

2013

159030

2014

166000

2015

72961

2016

117950

(b) Merseyside

Year

Value

2012

14700

2013

2255214

2014

2613001

2015

1266860

2016

1397774

(c) the North West

Year

Value

2012

74200

2013

9133096

2014

9698183

2015

5270121

2016

8633777

(d) England

Year

Value

2012

740219.3

2013

60752665

2014

60474669

2015

52193345

2016

72521195

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