Ms Anna Shakespeare:

It was about individuals with disabilities. The information we have on self-employment supports, and it is the most recent information up to 2023, is that 185 men and women availed of self-employment supports before they started up their businesses. That represents approximately 6% of the total number of people with disabilities who engaged with the SICAP. It is quite a low number. An even lower number, 22, required follow-up supports to trade as a company. Of the 185 who availed of supports, 22 continued to trade after they had set up their businesses as self-employed people, which is 1% so it is quite low.