§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what proportion of participants in the New Deal programme have left it to become self-employed. [89430]
§ Mr. Andrew SmithPeople who move off New Deal to start self-employment are recorded as having found work, and separate statistics are not collected. However, 2,635 young people have started on the Basic Awareness Session of the Self-Employment Route of the New Deal Employment Option; and 740 have started on the Test Trading stage. It is too early to provide meaningful figures of those who have subsequently moved from this stage into independent self-employment, but these will be available from later this year.