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90567

registered interest
date	03/09/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	New Enterprise Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many businesses have been created with help from the New Enterprise Allowance; and how many of those businesses have sustained operations for more than 52 weeks.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	208044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Latest statistics show that since the launch of New Enterprise Allowance (NEA) in 2011 to the end of March 2014, there were 46,000 NEA weekly allowance claims. The weekly allowance is payable when the participant closes their claim to benefits and commences trading which is a proxy measure for business starts created by the scheme.</p><p>We do not have data on the numbers of NEA businesses trading for 52 weeks. However, an analysis of the benefit status of NEA participants, published in 2013, highlighted that of 3,000 people who took part in the scheme in the first year, 78% had remained off benefit continuously for 52 weeks after claiming the NEA weekly allowance.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 09/09/2014 11:55:11 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper previous answer version 18988 answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

65592

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	New Enterprise Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) women and (b) men have applied for the new enterprise allowance.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	203830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Data on the number of applications for New Enterprise Allowance is not available.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/07/2014 13:54:25 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

65593

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	New Enterprise Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many single parents have set up businesses using the new enterprise allowance scheme; and of these, what proportion are female.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	203828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information is not available.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/07/2014 14:00:13 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

65596

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	New Enterprise Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) women's and (b) men's business plans which were approved received a weekly allowance for 26 weeks of a total of £1,274 as part of the new enterprise allowance.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	203824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information is not held centrally. We estimate that developing an appropriate methodology and quality assuring the analysis would exceed disproportionate cost limits.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/07/2014 14:13:35 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

65597

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	New Enterprise Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many of the recipients of the new enterprise allowance who previously claimed (a) access to work benefits, (b) disability living allowance and (c) incapacity benefit were (i) male and (ii) female.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	203822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The numbers of recipients of New Enterprise Allowance financial support for whom we have a record of at least one claim for Access to Work, Disability Living Allowance, Incapacity Benefit or Employment Support Allowance are shown in the table below</p><p> </p><p><strong>NEA participants with at least one previous claim for Access to Work (AtW), Disability Living Allowance (</strong><strong>DLA</strong><strong>), Incapacity Benefit (IB) and/or Employment Support Allowance (</strong><strong>ESA</strong><strong>) by gender</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>AtW</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>DLA</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>ESA</strong><strong>/IB</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Male</strong></p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>8,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Female</strong></p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>400</p></td><td><p>4,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>1,200</p></td><td><p>12,500</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><p>1. Figures rounded to nearest 100. Totals may not sum due to rounding</p><p>2. Figures include all claims for AtW and ESA and all live claims since 28<sup>th</sup> June 1999 for IB and DLA</p><p>3. Claimants are counted for each of the benefits they have claimed previously, e.g. someone who has claimed DLA and IB is counted in both columns</p><p>4. Claimants who have previously claimed both ESA and IB are only counted once in the ESA/IB column</p><p>5. DLA can be claimed at the same time as NEA. Figures include NEA participants whose DLA claim continues whilst also receiving NEA financial support</p><p>6. Access to Work is available to NEA participants. Figures for AtW include those who claimed AtW support within 6 months of starting NEA financial support</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/07/2014 14:24:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

65598

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	New Enterprise Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) women and (b) men are recipients of the new enterprise allowance.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	203827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Official Statistics on the numbers of New Enterprise Allowance mentoring starts and financial support starts are published quarterly and can be accessed via the link below.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/pre-work-programme-and-get-britain-working#new-enterprise-allowance-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/pre-work-programme-and-get-britain-working#new-enterprise-allowance-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>These statistics include a breakdown of starts by gender.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/07/2014 14:04:02 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

65606

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	New Enterprise Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what targets there are on increasing the number of women receiving the new enterprise allowance; and what progress has been made on these targets in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	203807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text There are no formal targets in place for increasing the number of women who participate in the New Enterprise Allowance scheme. Latest statistics show that since the launch of NEA in 2011 to the end of March 2014, there were 46,000 allowance claims, of which 15,720 were from women. The weekly allowance is payable when the participant closes their claim to benefits and commences trading. The rate of take up of NEA by women is approximately one third of the total. This is consistent with the proportion of women claiming Jobseeker's Allowance (the benefit claimed by the majority of NEA participants), demonstrating the success of the scheme in attracting all groups to access this support. answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/07/2014 15:14:52 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

65607

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	New Enterprise Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who received the new enterprise allowance have since reclaimed (a) jobseeker's allowance, (b) income support as a lone parent and (c) employment and support allowance; and how many of these were (i) women and (ii) men.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	203806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Department has made an assessment of the 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.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/225167/NEA_benefit_status_ad-hoc_v3.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/225167/NEA_benefit_status_ad-hoc_v3.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The analysis is not available by type of benefit or by gender.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/07/2014 14:44:47 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

63018

registered interest
date	20/06/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	New Enterprise Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many start up loans have been approved by his Department for participants on the new enterprise allowance scheme in each year since that scheme began.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	201606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Following a trailblazer started in January 2011, New Enterprise Allowance was launched in April 2011 creating 46,000 new businesses between April 2011 and March 2014.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1</strong> <strong>Table 2</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year<br> (Jan-Dec)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Loans</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Year<br> (Jan-Dec)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Loans</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>910</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>158</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>5,140</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1,805</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>7,711</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>472</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1</strong> shows the number of loans that have been made on behalf of DWP under the New Enterprise Allowance Scheme.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 2</strong> shows the number of New Enterprise Allowance Loans that have been made since October 2013 under the Start Up Loans scheme administered by BIS.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 25/06/2014 15:02:16 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

63025

registered interest
date	20/06/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	New Enterprise Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of employment and support allowance have been admitted to the new enterprise allowance scheme in each year since that scheme began.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	201605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>NEA was rolled out nationally in August 2011, with eligibility for JSA claimants only. Eligibility was broadened to ESA WRAG recipients in February 2013 although we expect the vast majority of participants to continue to be those claiming JSA.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The benefit type of claimants admitted on New Enterprise Allowance (NEA) is not routinely recorded. Analysis has been conducted to identify NEA mentor starts by ESA claimants since eligibility for NEA was opened up on 18 February 2013. The results are shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Estimated number of NEA mentor starts by ESA claimants in each calendar year:</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>18<sup>th</sup> Feb 2013</strong><strong> – 31<sup>st</sup> Dec 2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>630</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>1<sup>st</sup> Jan 2014</strong><strong> - 31<sup>st</sup> Mar 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>210</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source:</p><p> </p><p>DWP National Benefits Database and Opportunities Database</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p>Figures rounded to the nearest 10</p><p> </p><p>Data available to 31<sup>st</sup> March 2014</p><p> </p><p>More than 99% of mentor starts were matched to an appropriate benefit record</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 25/06/2014 15:24:42 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms