§ Earl Russellasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will estimate the number of people who have been subject to benefit sanctions on each New Deal programme and in each year since their introduction, breaking these totals down, where possible, by (a) gender, (b) ethnic minority and (c) region. [HL2601]
§ Baroness BlackstoneInformation is not available in the form requested. Young people taking part in the New Deal for 18 to 24 year-olds may be liable to a benefit sanction if they do not attend one of the four options as they are expected to do. Comprehensive information on the number of sanctions that have been imposed for failure to attend New Deal options as expected is collected through the Decision Making and Appeals System (DMAS). This system identifies the number of sanctions imposed for each New Deal option in each region but does not identify the numbers of individuals involved or a. breakdown of their characteristics.
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Table 1 Numbers of sanctions imposed on questions relating to New Deal 18–24 options on claims for JSA —April 1998 to 31 December 1999 New Deal 18–24 Option Region Subsidised employment FT Education or training Environment Task Force Voluntary Service Total LaSER 167 793 804 728 2,492 East Midlands 136 661 699 311 1,807 South West 111 225 395 341 1,072 West Midlands 153 962 1,065 408 2,588 Yorks & Humber 307 1,074 1,108 668 3,157 North West 410 1,140 1,358 492 3,400 Northern 261 1,337 778 370 2,746 Wales 155 336 732 142 1,365 Scotland 366 1,273 1,156 543 3,338 National 2,066 7,801 8,095 4,003 21,965 The Employment Service publishes information from DMAS each quarter. Published information is currently available to the end of December 1999. It shows the numbers of New Deal option sanctions imposed in each region were as follows:
April 1998 to 31 December 1999 Number London and South East 2,492 East Midlands 1,807 South West 1,072 West Midlands 2,588 Yorkshire and Humberside 3,157 North West 3,400 Northern 2,744 Wales 1,367 Scotland 3,338 Total 21,965
§ Earl Russellasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will estimate for the New Deal for Young People the number of sanctions imposed in each year since April 1998 for (a) each New Deal option, (b) each unit of delivery and (c) each region, stating in each case the number of young people on the scheme and the number and percentage of young people on New Deal who have been sanctioned. [HL2602]
§ Baroness BlackstoneInformation is not available in the form requested. Comprehensive information on the numbers of sanctions imposed for failure to attend options as expected within New Deal for Young People is collected through the Decision Ma king and Appeals System (DMAS) and is currently available to the end of December 1999. This is shown in Table 1.
This infomation cannot be compared directly with the numbers of young people who had joined New Deal in each region by December 1999 because it relates to number of sanctions imposed not to individuals. There will be cases where sanctions have been imposed more than once on an individual.
Table 2 sets out the numbers of young people who had joined New Deal in each region and in Scotland and Wales by end December 1999. Table 3 shows the number of young people who have joined each of the options during this period.
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Table 2 Numbers of young people starting on New Deal—April 1998 to December 1999 Region Total LaSER 96,860 East Midlands and Eastern 33,250 South West 21,630 West Midlands 38,420 Yorks and Humber 44,720 North West 55,500
Table 3 Number of young people joining New Deal options April 1998 to 31 December 1999 New Deal 18–24 Option Region Subsidised employment FT Education or training Environment Task Force Voluntary Service Total LaSER 4,300 14,580 6,280 4,410 28,570 East Midlands 1,970 5,440 2,170 2,030 11,610 South West 1,840 3,120 2,070 1,350 8,510 West Midlands 2,160 6,190 2,130 2,150 12,630 Yorks & Humber 3,060 8,280 3,420 3,530 18,290 North West 4,710 8,910 3,370 4,520 21,510 Northern 2,260 7,450 1,850 2,190 13,750 Wales 2,640 3,550 1,690 2,650 10,530 Scotland 3,900 6,730 3,330 3,620 17,670 National 26,930 64,250 26,310 25,450 143,000