§ Mr. BradyTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people have moved to sustained unsubsidised employment from the New Deal for Lone Parents; and what percentage he estimates would have found employment without the New Deal for Lone Parents. [130682]
§ Angela EagleUp to the end of April, 54,241 lone parents had obtained jobs following participation in the New Deal for Lone Parents programme. All NDLP jobs are unsubsidised.
The evaluation of the programme's prototype phase, which ran from July 1997 to October 1998, estimates how many jobs gained were additional to those that would have occurred without the programme. Copies of the evaluation reports are available in the Library. This estimated that NDLP virtually paid for itself.
Comprehensive evaluation of the national phase of the NDLP programme is being conducted and will report in 2002.