§ Mr. Matthew TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if it is the policy of the Government to continue the New Deal beyond 2002; and if he will make a statement. [107794]
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§ Ms JowellThe different New Deal programmes we have put in place are all helping people move from welfare to work. Almost 180,000 young people have moved into work from the New Deal for young unemployed people; nearly 30,000 have found work from the New Deal for people aged 25+, and more than 28,000 people have found work from the New Deal for lone parents. We are also offering help through the New Deal for disabled people, New Deal for partners and New Deal for 50+.
The precise shape of this government's welfare to work programme for the new Parliament will be settled as part of the spending review 2000.