Speeches

Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-04-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on the new enterprise allowance in each year since its introduction.

Esther McVey

We do not have complete figures for 2013/14 as the yearly accounts have not yet been finalised, and won’t audited until May.

Spend figures for NEA in the two full financial years to April 2013 are:

Financial year 2011/12

Financial year 2012/13

DEL spend

£11.4m

£14.7m

AME spend

£5.0m

£18.3m