§ Mr. GorrieTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many people in each local enterprise company area have started on the New Deal programme and then left it without going into employment, education and training or
Immediate destinations of those leaving New Deal1 Unit of delivery2 Other benefits Other known destinations3 Not known4 Total leavers1 Numbers joining programme Total leavers 1 as percentage of those joining programme Argyll and the Islands 10 6 19 35 236 15 Ayrshire 60 105 103 268 1,881 14 Borders 5 8 15 28 301 9 Caithness and Sutherland 1 3 5 9 85 11 Dumfries and Galloway 18 14 26 58 487 12 Dunbarton 31 41 58 130 934 14 Edinburgh, East and Midlothian 70 49 129 248 1,478 17 Fife 52 49 104 205 1,534 13 Forth Valley 38 41 67 146 983 15 Glasgow 198 143 264 605 3,530 17 Grampian 57 38 92 187 682 27 Inverness and Nairn 6 8 18 32 196 16 Lochaber 1 1 13 15 46 33 Lanarkshire 127 136 167 430 2,800 15 Moray, Strathspey and Badenoch 7 14 11 32 224 14 Orkney 0 0 0 0 31 0 Renfrewshire 67 64 99 230 1,255 18 Ross and Cromarty 4 2 14 20 150 13 Shetland 0 4 5 9 32 28 Skye and Lochalsh 0 2 5 7 36 19 Tayside 118 92 200 410 2,315 18 West Lothian 22 14 48 84 497 17 Western Isles 1 8 9 18 97 19 Scotland 893 842 1,471 3,206 19,810 16 1 Excluding those who gained employment or had taken up education or training or had worked with the voluntary sector or Environment Task Force. 2 LEC areas correspond to New Deal units of delivery except for the area covered by Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Limited which is split into 2 New Deal delivery units: Edinburgh, East and Mid Lothian, and West Lothian. 3 Other known destinations include: starting on training programme outwith the New Deal; moving into full-time education; moving abroad; and entering prison. 4 Some young people who find a job will not, for whatever reason, record this as the reason for termination of their JSA claim these will be counted as 'Not Known'. Past research shows that the destinations of those who do not give a reason for termination follows a similar pattern to those who do give a reason more than half of whom move to unsubsidised jobs. As more data are added the numbers in this category may be revised downwards for recent months.