§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people have been employed by her Department in each of the last three years under(a) the New Deal for Young People, (b) the New Deal for the Over 50s and (c) the New Deal for Lone Parents; and at what cost, listed by category, to public funds. [44908]
§ Mr. Ivan LewisInformation on the numbers employed on New Deal is not held in a format that identifies those employed on the over 50 or lone parent programmes.
Information on the subsidised numbers employed under New Deal for Young People is as follows:
New Deal for Young People Year 1998–1999 12 1999–2000 26 2000–2001 50 2001–2002 3 The figures for 2000–02 relate to DfES and its former Department DfEE. The figure for 2000–01 was prior to the Machinery of Government changes. The figure for 2001–02 takes account of the Machinery of Government changes.
Since 1 April 2000 there have been 51 unsubsidised New Deal job starts. It is not possible to allocate any of these to any particular age or client group.
New Deal recruits take up existing vacancies so any extra cost to public funds is limited to the subsidy, where appropriate, and to any training and development which may be needed. The cost of the latter cannot be identified.