HC Deb 27 July 1999 vol 336 cc162-5W
Mr. Keetch

To 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 Smith

Latest statistics to the end of April 1999 show the following job outcomes for people with disabilities under the New Deal for Young People:

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

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.