Between January 2011 and May this year there were 1,233 full- or part-time self-employed persons who stopped working because of lack of business.
During the same period there were a total of 3,204 self-employed who stopped working, including 256 who reached retirement age and 259 found other jobs.
Giving the information in reply to a parliamentary question by Opposition MP Anġlu Farrugia, Employment Minister Dolores Cristina pointed out that the number of self-employed people in the period had increasedby 602.