New Enterprise Allowance: April 2011 to March 2016
The number of starts with a business mentor and the number of starts on the allowance.
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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.
Read about how we produce these statistics in the background information note.