AQW 14111/11-15

Mr Stewart Dickson
Alliance Party
East Antrim

Tabled Date: 11/09/2012
Answered On Date: 24/09/2012
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment how many businesses in the South Antrim area obtained funding under the Jobs Fund during 2012, broken down by each of the maximum grants.

Answer:

To date during 2012 a total of 14 businesses in South Antrim have received offers of support through the Jobs Fund for employment based investment projects which collectively have the potential to create a total of 68 new jobs.

Under the Jobs Fund scheme the grant offered is determined by the salaries of the jobs being created and ranges from £3,000 per job to £7,000 per job. The 14 projects supported in South Antrim range from a two person employment project with a total grant offer of £10,000 to an eight person employment project with a total grant offer of £50,000.

The Jobs Fund work is ongoing and Invest NI is continuing to build a pipeline of projects that may lead to further new job creation in South Antrim in the near future.