HC Deb 17 November 1997 vol 301 c33W
Mr. Brady

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how the benefits of those aged under 25 years who are unemployed and who refuse to take up any of the options offered by the Welfare-to-Work scheme will be affected. [14655]

Mr. Andrew Smith

Young people who without good cause refuse a New Deal place will lose their Jobseeker's Allowance for two weeks. Every time they refuse a further offer in the following 12 months they will lose JSA for four weeks.