HC Deb 16 February 1999 vol 325 c717W
Mr. Maclean

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what has been the cost of providing information and advisory services on the New Deal in (i) Vietnamese, (ii) Chinese and (iii) all languages other than English and Welsh. [71093]

Mr. Andrew Smith

It is impossible to give the cost for providing information in each individual language as most publications produced in languages other than English and Welsh are a compilation of English and seven languages. These are Bengali, Cantonese (Chinese), Gujerati, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, and Vietnamese. The cost of producing the publications was £73,395.

The cost of providing advisory services to New Deal clients is not broken down by detailed ethnic group.