Speeches

Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-06-12.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people are registered as self-employed in each region and constituent part of the UK.

Mr David Gauke

Estimates of the numbers of individuals with self employment sources for each region of the UK in the year 2011-12 are provided in the table attached.

Region

Number of Self-employed
(thousands)

North East

158

North West and Merseyside

497

Yorkshire and the Humber

402

East Midlands

352

West Midlands

418

East of England

556

London

883

South East

844

South West

559

Wales

240

Scotland

368

Northern Ireland

177

Address abroad

34

All UK

5,490

These estimates are based on the Survey of Personal Incomes for 2011-12 which is the latest year available.