Official Statistics

New Enterprise Allowance: April 2011 to June 2014

Official statistics on New Enterprise Allowance (NEA) for the period April 2011 to June 2014.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 25 September 2014

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

Documents

New Enterprise Allowance April 2011 to June 2014

PDF, 279 KB, 9 pages

New Enterprise Allowance April 2011 to June 2014: tables

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 256 KB

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Details

New Enterprise Allowance (NEA) aims to help unemployed people claiming out of work benefits who wish to start up their own business. Participants in NEA work with a business mentor to develop their business idea. Once they have started trading and left benefits, they receive a weekly allowance.

These statistics record the number of people who have started working with a business mentor and who have started receiving the allowance. The main findings are:

• 105,240 starts with an NEA business mentor
• 53,350 have started trading, left benefits and started receiving the weekly allowance

Published 25 September 2014