§ Mr. KeetchTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many disabled people have found work as a result of(a) the New Deal for 18 to 24 year olds, (b) the New Deal for lone parents and (c) the New Deal for over 50 year olds in each claimant area to date. [92266]
§ Mr. Andrew SmithLatest statistics to the end of April 1999 show the following job outcomes for people with disabilities under the New Deal for Young People:
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Unit of delivery Total job outcomes Tayside 128 Ayrshire 122 Borders 36 Dumfries and Galloway 41 Dunbarton 51 Edinburgh, East and Mid Lothian 137 Fife 114 Forth Valley 57 Glasgow 143 Grampian 53 Moray, Strathspay and Badenoch 19 Lanarkshire 147 Renfrewshire 112 West Lothian 51 Argyll and The Islands 19 Caithness and Sutherland 10 Inverness and Nairn 13 Lochaber 5 Western Isles 18 Orkney 3 Ross and Cromarty 15 Shetland 5 Skye and Lochalsh 3 Newcastle, Gateshead and South Tyneside 245 Northumberland 53 Tyneside North 51 Durham North and Durham South 209 City of Sunderland formerly Wearside 86 Tees North and Tees South 158 Cumbria 167 Wirral 137 Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre 60 Bolton 52 Bury 28 Central Lancashire 94 Cheshire 108 City Pride Manchester 299 East Lancashire 124 Halton and Warrington 75 Knowsley 44 Liverpool 166 North Lancashire 38 Oldham 35 Rochdale 64 Sefton 84 St. Helens 58 Stockport 45 West Lancashire 31 Wigan 86 Sheffield 164 Rotherham 122 South Humber 165 Calderdale and Kirklees 175 Barnsley and The Dearne 92 Bradford 144 Hull and East Coast formerly Hull 230 Leeds 178 North Yorkshire 121 Wakefield and Doncaster 207 165W
Unit of delivery Total job outcomes West Wales 150 Swansea 201 North West Wales 103 Powys 20 Ceredigion 32 North East Wales formerly Flintshire and Wrexham 64 North Wales Coast 35 Cardiff and Vale 113 Bridgend and Glamorgan Valleys 96 Heads of the Valley and Caerphilly 153 Newport, Torfaen and Monmouth 129 Black Country 426 Birmingham 230 Solihull 18 Staffordshire 229 Hereford and Worcester 112 Coventry 72 Warwickshire 56 Shropshire 91 Southern Derbyshire 172 Cambridge TTWA 64 North Derbyshire 113 Leicestershire 124 Lincolnshire 113 Norfolk 121 West Norfolk 44 Northamptonshire 67 Greater Nottingham 130 North Nottinghamshire 118 Peterborough 68 Suffolk 79 Waveney 51 Cornwall 365 Bath and North East Somerset and North Somerset 83 Bristol and South Gloucestershire formerly Central Bristol 110 Dorset 170 Exeter and East Devon 61 Torbay and South Devon formerly South Devon 82 North Devon 46 Gloucestershire 83 Plymouth 137 Somerset 126 Wiltshire and Swindon formerly Wiltshire 120 Eastbourne and Hastings formerly Eastbourne 113 Lambeth 41 Harlow 19 Hackney and City 39 Hertfordshire 164 Brighton 74 Canterbury 91 Channel 70 Chatham 143 Crawley 20 Croydon and Bromley 133 Guildford 51 Lewisham 62 Maidstone, Dartford and West Kent 98 Southwark 65 Greenwich 70 Bexley 33 Sutton, Merton Esher, Kingston, Epsom 109 Wandsworth 43 West Sussex Coastal Plain 49 South Essex 192 North Essex formerly North and Mid Essex 146 Edgware and Leaside 85 North East London 58 Havering, Barking and Dagenham 73 Newham 63 Tower Hamlets 15 Camden and North Islington 42 Ealing and Hillingdon formerly Ealing 48
Unit of delivery Total job outcomes Bedfordshire and Luton 76 Milton Keynes and North Buckinghamshire 43 Mid Hants 21 Oxfordshire 56 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 89 Isle of Wight 39 Reading 42 Slough 72 Southampton and South West Hampshire 58 Wembley 53 Westminster 14 Hounslow and Richmond 44 Hammersmith, Fulham, Kensington, Chelsea 39 Total 13,329 Latest statistics to the end of April 1999 show the following job outcomes for people with disabilities under the NDLP:
Employment service regional office Total job outcomes Scotland 38 London and the South East 70 South West 23 East Midlands and Eastern 32 West Midlands 48 Wales 28 Yorkshire and the Humber 29 North West 63 Northern 28 Great Britain total 359 Notes:
1. These figures relate to lone parents receiving in-work support while on NDLP and those who have left NDLP for employment.
2. Statistics are not broken down below regional level.
The initial pilots for New Deal for those over the age of 50 are not due to start until October 1999 followed by the main rollout in April 2000.