§ Mr. GroganTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many people aged over 50 years in(a) Yorkshire and Humberside and (b) the city of York are eligible to apply for the New Deal for the over 50s. [149448]
§ Ms JowellAt December 2000, 7,565 JSA recipients in the Employment Service region of Yorkshire and the Humber, and 105 people in the unitary authority area of York, were eligible for New Deal 50 plus. It is not possible to provide figures for eligible people in receipt of non-JSA benefits.