§ Mr. RendelTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security under the New Deal for Lone Parents, how many lone parents, broken down by constituency,(a) received initial invitation letters, (b) booked initial interviews with personal advisers, (c) attended initial interviews, (d) agreed to participate in the programme following an initial interview, (e) were referred to Employment Service programmes or other training, (f) obtained jobs following participation and (g) have increased their hours of work following participation; and where a job has been obtained, or hours of work have been increased, how many lone parents (i) are in work where the hours are (A) less than 16 hours per week, (B) between 16 and 29 hours per week and (C) 30 hours per week or more, (ii) have moved off income support as a result, (iii) have a child under five years and three months of age, (iv) in cases where the youngest child is over five years and three months put themselves forward before receiving an invitation letter and (v) were given help with making an application for family credit. [58711]
§ Angela Eagle[holding answer 9 November 1998]: The information requested broken down by constituency is not available. It is possible to provide a partial reply broken down by Employment Service regions. The information is set out in the table.
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Cumulative figures for phase 1 and 2 to 25 September 1998 Data item Regional totals Laser1 Scotland2 Northern South West Wales3 North West4 Yorks and Humberside5 West Midlands6 East Midlands7 National totals iv) are early starters (ie lone parents with child/(ren) over 5yrs and 3mths who put themselves forward for NDLP before receiving an invitation letter)12 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a v) were given help with making an application for Family Credit13 545 145 72 156 241 243 150 190 160 1,902
Cambridgeshire North Cheshire North Worcestershire Sheffield East Cardiff and Vale Clyde Valley North Surrey Warwickshire Total Prototype10 (i,c) work over 16 hours per week (phase 1) 385 473 398 297 484 209 372 393 3,011 In the table, results from the prototype areas are included in the following regions1-7
1 Includes North Surrey prototype
2 Includes Clyde Valley prototype
3 Includes Cardiff and Vale Prototype
4 Includes North Cheshire prototype
5 Includes Sheffield East prototype
6 Includes Warwickshire and North Worcestershire prototype
7 Includes Cambridgeshire prototype
8 Information on the number of lone parents who have received initial invitation letters is not available, but information is available on the number of initial invitation letters issued.
9 Information on the number of lone parents that have been referred to Employment Service programmes or other training is not available.
10 Information on (i) includes lone parents who have obtained jobs or increased their working hours. It is not possible to provide the information under all parts of (i) separately for those lone parents who have (a) obtained jobs or (b) increased their working hours.
11 Information on the number of lone parents who have left Income Support as a result of obtaining a job is not available from the management information statistics. However, it is safe to assume that lone parents who work over 16 hours per week would have left Income Support.
12 Information on the number of early starters in the target group who have obtained jobs is not available.
13 Information on the number of lone parents who have obtained jobs/increased their working hours and been given help with making a family credit application is available only for phase 2.
n/a = Not available.