§ Mr. WillettsTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many initial invitation letters have been sent to lone parents in the target group for the New Deal for Lone Parents. [119248]
§ Angela Eagle514,821 initial invitation letters were sent to lone parents in the target group from July 1997 to January 2000, the latest figures available.
§ Mr. WillettsTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many lone parents whose youngest child is aged five years and three months or over are in receipt of Income Support. [119245]
§ Angela EagleThe number of lone parents on Income Support in Great Britain with a youngest child aged five years and three months or over is 470,000.
Source:
Income Support Statistics Quarterly Enquiry, November 1999.
§ Mr. WillettsTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many lone parents, under the New Deal for Lone Parents, have secured employment in each month since the scheme began, broken down into(a) target and (b) non-target groups. [119247]
§ Angela EagleThe information is in the table.
553W
Information for National Phase—October 1998 to January 2000 National Programme Target group Non-target group Total1 October 1998 16 7 23 November 1998 802 533 1,353 December 1998 492 382 884 January 1999 792 628 1,427 February 1999 1,139 883 2,030 March 1999 1,382 989 2,383 April 1999 1,866 1,314 3,190 May 1999 1,527 1,029 2,569 June 1999 1,381 898 2,290 July 1999 1,463 1,019 2,495 August 1999 1,122 750 1,887 September 1999 1,502 1,010 2,525 October 1999 2,924 2,248 5,198 November 1999 2,577 1,910 4,509 December 1999 1,319 1,124 2,459 January 2000 1,307 800 2,133 Total 21,611 15,524 237,355 1 The total column includes those for whom target/non-target is not recorded, for this reason the columns do not sum to the total 2 The total figure differs from the total figure quoted in the Statistical First Release (SFR) due to rounding in the SFR. During phase 1 (July 1997-October 1998) 2,473 target group and 920 non-target group lone parents obtained jobs1. In phase 2 (April 1998 to October 1998) a total of 2,878 lone parents obtained jobs2.
1 Information is not available in the format requested for phases 1 and 2 because results were kept clerically and it is not possible to accurately break them down on a monthly basis.2 In some cases it was not recorded whether the lone parent was either from the target or non-target group, for this reason the figures cannot be split into these groups.