§ Miss McintoshTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will make a statement on the contractual arrangement for the delivery of the New Deal services to provide Welfare to Work. [27687]
§ Mr. Alan HowarthResponsibility for the subject of the question has been delegated to the Employment Service agency under its Chief Executive. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
287WLetter from Leigh Lewis to Miss Anne Mcintosh, dated February 1998:
The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your question relating to the contractual arrangements for the delivery of the New Deal. This is something which falls within the responsibilities delegated to me as Employment Service Chief Executive.There are currently three principal contracting models for delivering the New Deal for unemployed young people:a joint venture partnership: where a consortium is formed to deliver the whole of the New Deal in a unit of delivery and the Employment Service agrees with members of the consortium jointly to develop and implement a delivery proposal. The contract is between the Secretary of State (acting through the Employment Service) and lead members of the partnership;a single consortium: where a consortium is formed, as above, and the Secretary of State has a single contract with either a designated lead organisation or the consortium which has established itself as a legal entity;a series of individual contracts: the Secretary of State (acting through the Employment Service) enters into a series of individual contracts, which in aggregate deliver the full New Deal services required in a district.I hope this is helpful.