§ Mr. KeetchTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the percentage of leavers from the 18 to 24 New Deal by each unit of delivery in the United Kingdom from April 1998 to the latest date for which the figures are available(a) whose destination was unsubsidised employment and (b) whose destination was unknown. [89377]
§ Mr. Andrew SmithThe table shows the percentages of young people leaving New Deal for unsubsidised employment and for whom no destination is recorded for the period April 1998 to April 1999, by each Employment Service Unit of Delivery. In addition to these figures for unsubsidised jobs, the independent research report on leavers with unknown destinations published last month showed that 43 per cent. of respondents said they had left the New Deal for paid employment.
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Percentage Destination on leaving Revised units of delivery Unsubsidised employment Not known Tayside 44 32 Ayrshire 47 28 Borders 49 34 Dumfries and Galloway 46 32 Dunbarton 52 26 Great Britain and are given in the table. Such data were not published by domicile
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Percentage Destination on leaving Revised units of delivery Unsubsidised employment Not known Edinburgh, East and Mid Lothian 44 30 Fife 43 36 Forth valley 56 24 Glasgow 38 32 Grampian 39 34 Moray, Strathspay and Badenoch 54 27 Lanarkshire 49 24 Renfrewshire 46 27 West Lothian 49 29 Argyll and The Islands 56 28 Caithness and Sutherland 52 27 Inverness and Nairn 49 30 Lochaber 58 35 Western Isles 49 35 Orkney 72 22 Ross and Cromarty 59 26 Shetland 45 45 Skye and Lochalsh 44 50 Newcastle, Gateshead and South Tyneside 38 35 Northumberland 49 26 Tyneside North 48 28 Durham North and Durham South 47 28 City of Sunderland formerly Wearside 47 23 Tees North and Tees South 41 30 Cumbria 48 29 Wirral 42 38 Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre 43 36 Bolton 41 34 Bury 43 35 Central Lancashire 46 28 Cheshire 46 31 City Pride Manchester 40 36 East Lancashire 42 33 Halton and Warrington 48 31 Knowsley 38 29 Liverpool 39 32 North Lancashire 48 31 Oldham 47 31 Rochdale 44 31 Sefton 50 26 St. Helens 44 28 Stockport 45 31 West Lancashire 49 19 Wigan 49 30 Sheffield 39 42
Percentage Destination on leaving Revised units of delivery Unsubsidised employment Not known Rotherham 39 37 South Humber 53 26 Calderdale and Kirlees 40 34 Barnsley and The Dearne 44 27 Bradford 39 37 Hull and East Coast formerly Hull 49 27 Leeds 37 42 North Yorkshire 45 34 Wakefield and Doncaster 42 35 West Wales 47 29 Swansea 45 31 North West Wales 57 24 Powys 44 34 Ceredigion 53 22 North East Wales formerly Flintshire and Wrexham 50 27 North Wales Coast 41 33 Cardiff and Vale 42 34 Bridgend and Glamorgan Valleys 45 26 Heads of the Valley and Caerphilly 48 26 Newport, Torfaen and Monmouth 45 32 Black Country 43 33 Birmingham 35 39 Solihull 36 39 Staffordshire 45 32 Hereford and Worcester 51 31 Coventry 40 39 Warwickshire 47 36 Shropshire 49 30 Southern Derbyshire 44 32 Cambridge TTWA 52 31 North Derbyshire 47 31 Leicestershire 42 38 Lincolnshire 46 33 Norfolk 51 30 West Norfolk 60 23 Northamptonshire 43 40 Greater Nottingham 40 36 North Nottinghamshire 48 29 Peterborough 44 37 Suffolk 53 25 Waveney 56 23 Cornwall 51 34 Bath and North East Somerset and North Somerset 53 29 Bristol and South Gloucestershire formerly Central Bristol 45 34 Dorset 47 36 Exeter and East Devon 49 27 Torbay and South Devon formerly South Devon 54 28 North Devon 49 32 Gloucestershire 47 33 Plymouth 48 31 Somerset 52 31 Wiltshire and Swindon formerly Wiltshire 50 30 Eastbourne and Hastings formerly Eastbourne 43 40 Lambeth 35 48
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Percentage Scotland Northern North West Yorkshire and the Humber Wales West Midlands East Mids and Eastern South West London and South East Those leaving before having a first interview 44 46 38 38 44 37 41 43 30 Those leaving during the gateway 48 47 46 45 49 44 49 53 45 Those leaving from an option 45 39 44 40 45 37 39 44 37 Those leaving from follow-through 31 32 30 31 33 36 34 40 34
Percentage Destination on leaving Revised units of delivery Unsubsidised employment Not known Harlow 39 42 Hackney and City 32 46 Hertfordshire 50 33 Brighton 43 36 Canterbury 43 39 Channel 52 30 Chatham 48 33 Crawley 44 40 Croydon and Bromley 41 43 Guildford 50 36 Lewisham 41 41 Maidstone, Dartford and West Kent 50 33 Southwark 35 41 Greenwich 43 36 Bexley 49 34 Sutton, Merton, Esher, Kingston, Epsom 45 38 Wandsworth 36 43 West Sussex Coastal Plain 50 32 South Essex 51 26 North Essex formerly North and Mid Essex 53 30 Edgware and Leaside 37 43 North East London 38 43 Havering, Barking and Dagneham 41 41 Newham 34 45 Tower Hamlets 38 42 Camden and North Islington 37 47 Ealing and Hillingdon formerly Ealing 41 42 Bedfordshire and Luton 40 41 Milton Keynes and North Buckinghamshire 41 41 Mid Hants 47 37 Oxfordshire 42 39 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 45 37 Isle of Wight 48 33 Reading 43 41 Slough 43 41 Southampton and South West Hampshire 45 37 Wembley 38 44 Westminster 32 48 Hounslow and Richmond 38 43 Hammersmith, Fulham, Kensington, Chelsea 37 43 Total 44 34
§ Mr. KeetchTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list for each region the proportion of all those who left the 18 to 24 New Deal for unsubsidised employment who left at each stage of the New Deal process between April 1998 and April 1999. [89371]
§ Mr. Andrew SmithThe table shows the number of young people leaving each stage of New Deal and the proportion of them who went into unsubsidised employment between April 1998 and April 1999, by each Employment Service region.
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§ Mr. KeetchTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his answer to the right hon. Member for Penrith and The Border (Mr. Maclean) of 25 June 1999,Official Report, columns 467—68 on the New Deal, what assessment he has made of the reliability of the survey of young people leaving the New Deal for unknown destinations [89394]
§ Mr. Andrew SmithThe recently published survey on leavers with unknown destinations was carried out by a reputable independent organisation under careful management from the Employment Service. It was produced and released in accordance with the Government Statistical Service Code of Practice and I am, therefore, satisfied that the survey results are reliable.
§ Mr. Paul MarsdenTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many people have entered the New Deal scheme for those aged under 25 years in Shrewsbury and Atcham; and if he will make a statement. [89379]
§ Mr. Andrew SmithThe latest Government Statistical figures to the end of April 1999 show that 1,284 people have entered the New Deal for Young People in the Shropshire Unit of Delivery which cover Shrewsbury and Atcham. Statistics from the New Deal are not available yet for individual constituencies; rather they are broken down by Unit of Delivery. I am very encouraged by the progress being made in Shropshire and pleased to see that they are currently in the top quartile in the New Deal Core Performance tables for the proportion of people moving from the New Deal into jobs.