HC Deb 04 March 1999 vol 326 cc834-5W
Mr. Maclean

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many individuals in the target group of the New Deal for 18 to 24-year-olds have left unemployment (i) between May 1997 and the nationwide commencement of the New Deal and (ii) between the nationwide commencement of the New Deal and the latest available date. [71131]

Mr. Andrew Smith

The information is provided in the following table, based on the monthly count of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance or National Insurance Credits:

Scottish Fee Support Review Body ('Quigley Review')

TECs (Review of The Role of) Review of the Threshold Exempting Employers with Fewer than 20 Employers from the Employment Provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 produced a report on 12 June 1998.

Task Forces Careers Service Special Needs Task Force Disability Rights Task Force reported on the role and functions of a Disability Rights Commission on 12 June 1998.

Standards Task Force

New Deal Task Force has published 3 reports: Meeting The Needs Of The Disadvantaged—November 1998 Business Participation in Welfare-to-Work: lessons from the United States—January 1999 Environment Task Force Advisory Group?Sub-Group Report On Linking Funding Sources—February 1999

Numeracy Task Force published: Numeracy Matters—preliminary report published for consultation in January 1998 The Implementation of the National Numeracy Strategy, final report in July 1998

Skills Task Force published its first report in September 1998

Advisory Groups

Adult and Community Learning Fund Advisory Group

Advisory Committee for Disabled People in Employment and Training

Bureaucracy Advisory Group

Careers Education and Guidance Consultative Advisory Group

Creative and Cultural Education National Advisory Committee

Development of Individual Learning Accounts Advisory Group

Education and the Teaching of Democracy published its final report titled "Education for citizenship and the teaching of democracy in schools" on 22 September 1998.

Education Development Plans (EDPs) Advisory Group

Further Education Student Support Advisory Group

Gifted and Talented Children

Independent/State School Partnerships published an Interim Report in May 1998, and a final report on 7 October 1998.

National Year of Reading

New Deal Task Force Advisory Group

New Start Advisory Group

Personal, Social And Health Education Advisory Group

Post-16 Partnership Advisory Group

Race Employment and Education Forum (Reef) Advisory Group

Raising Ethnic Minority Pupil Achievement Advisory Group

Skills Policy Action Team Advisory Group

Special Educational Needs National Advisory Group

University for Industry Design and Implementation Advisory Group.