AQW 18325/11-15

Mr Stewart Dickson
Alliance Party
East Antrim

Tabled Date: 10/01/2013
Answered On Date: 22/01/2013
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, pursuant to AQW 13912/11-15 and in relation to the support offered to the 1,841 businesses between 1 January and 31 August 2012, how many jobs have been created.

Answer:

It is not possible to provide detailed information on the number of jobs created since Invest Northern Ireland reports on the number of jobs promoted through assisted projects. This is in line with its Corporate Plan and Programme for Government targets.

The 1,841 businesses offered support included 651 employment-related projects which plan to create 3,519 jobs. Since these projects will take some time to fully implement, the jobs associated with them may take up to five years to be fully realised.

Invest NI is currently reviewing options to enable it to report actual job creation in the future. However, this will take some time to implement and for the information to become meaningful, since assisted projects can take up to five years to reach their maximum level of job creation.