§ Mr. Stephen TwiggTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many young unemployed people he estimates will join the New Deal programme in 1999–2000, broken down by suitable locality. [80899]
§ Mr. Andrew SmithThe New Deal for young people is delivered through local partnerships. For planning purposes, the Employment Service has provided its partners in each local unit of delivery with an indicative assumption for the numbers of young people who might join the programme in 1999–2000. Those planning assumptions are based on current unemployment levels. They are not forecasts of the actual numbers who will join the programme. They do however enable the Employment Service and its partners in each local area to plan on a better informed basis, and they help to ensure that adequate plans are in place locally to meet potential demand.
254WI am placing in the Library a list showing the indicative planning assumption for the New Deal for young people in each unit of delivery.