Robert Halfon – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Robert Halfon on 2014-04-03.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of people who run a small or medium-sized enterprise as a secondary form of income alongside another job.
Matthew Hancock
Information is not available to answer this question. However, data from the Office for National Statistics estimate that around 400,000 people describe themselves as self employed in their second jobs between October 2012 and September 2013.