§ Mr. GreenTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many of those who moved from the New Deal for 18 to 24-year-olds to unsubsidised employment between April and September 1998 are no longer in work. [56044]
§ Mr. Andrew Smith[holding answer 26 October 1998]: The latest published figures show 15,830 young people leaving New Deal between April and August 1998, to go into unsubsidised employment. These figures exclude any who have returned to claim JSA within 13 weeks of leaving New Deal. We do not know yet how many, if any, have left their jobs but not returned to claim JSA. Our detailed evaluation of New Deal will enable us to produce more detailed information, such as this, once a full cohort of New Deal participants has completed its progress through the programme.