§ Mrs. MayTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what the process is by which costs borne by the Employment Service relating to the provision of services under the New Deal are repaid from the New Deal budget; and if he will list the sums transferred in each of the last three years. [142489]
§ Ms Jowell[holding answer 13 December 2000]: The Employment Service has agreed the arrangements for identifying New Deal expenditure with the National Audit Office. Most expenditure on activities supporting the New Deal is accounted for by the Employment Service through discrete account codes. The exception to this is paybill expenditure, where in a separate exercise staff costs are apportioned on the basis of the time staff spend on New 265W Deal activities. The costs are then charged to the appropriate New Deal budget, so money does not need to be transferred.
Expenditure on the New Deal has been published in the Departmental Report, which is available in the Library.