§ Mr. WillettsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what proportion of all participants finding subsidised or unsubsidised work through the New Deal for Young People have found employment with(a) public sector employers and (b) private sector employers; and if he will make a statement on the relationship between these figures and Government targets. [79824]
§ Mr. Andrew SmithTo the end of January 1999, 14,000 clients had entered Subsidised Employment. The split of the jobs was 12 private sector jobs for each public sector job.
A comparable split cannot be provided for the 62,300 unsubsidised job starts as categorisation is available only by standard industrial classification, and then only for ES placings.
We have not set targets for the numbers of young people placed in the public or private sector, but have indicated that we would not expect the proportion moving into public sector jobs to exceed the share of public sector jobs available for the work force as a whole.