HC Deb 06 November 2002 vol 392 cc302-3W
Mr. Andrew Turner

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will list the schemes and initiatives sponsored by his Department and its agencies which are not the subject of national roll out, showing(a) the authorities or areas covered by the scheme and (b) the budget of the scheme in the last year for which information is available. [75678]

Mr. Nicholas Brown

The table provides information on the Department's current initiatives (at 21 October 2002) which are not part of a national roll out.

Initiative Budget 2002–03 (£m) Areas covered
Ambition IT 7.6 Manchester
Ambition Retail1 Bristol, Cardiff, Gateshead, Glasgow, Redditch
Attendance Allowance—trial of new claims procedures 0.25 Bristol and South West
Basic Skills pilots1 Jobcentre Plus Districts:

Greater Nottingham, Wearside
Employment Zones 78.77 Birmingham, Brent, Brighton and Hove, Doncaster, Glasgow, Haringey, Heads of the Valley and Caerphilly, Liverpool Sefton, Middlesbrough, Newham, North West Wales, Nottingham, Plymouth, Southwark, Tower Hamlets.
Innovation Fund projects 5.7 Former Employment Service Units of Delivery:

Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bradford, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hackney, Huddersfield, Keighley, Lewisham, Liverpool, Newham, Northumberland, Southend-on-Sea, Suffolk
Mentoring pilots 2.0 Former Employment Service Units of Delivery:

Barnsley and Rotherham, Black Country, Borders, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff and the Vale, Greater Nottingham, Hereford and Worcester, Knowsley, Lanarkshire, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, North West Wales, Teesside, Thames Gateway
Minority Ethnic outreach projects 6.5 Selected areas in Jobcentre Plus Districts:

Birmingham and Solihull, Bolton and Bury, Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees, City and East London, Coventry and Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Lewisham, London Central North East, London Central South, London North, London South East, Manchester North and South, Oldham and Rochdale, Sandwell and Dudley, Wolverhampton and Walsall
Step UP pilots 12.0 Selected wards in:

Burnley, Cardiff, East Ayrshire, Great Yarmouth, Greenwich, Knowsley, Lambeth, Leeds, Manchester, Oldham, Rotherham, Sandwell, Sheffield, Sunderland [Further pilots will start in Bradford, Bristol, Coventry, Dundee, Hackney, Wrexham in November 2002]
Tailored pathway pilots 2.0 Former Employment Service Units of Delivery:

Bath and North East Somerset, Brighton, Coventry, Dorset, Dumfries and Galloway, Ealing and Hillingdon, Glasgow, Greater Nottinghamshire, Knowsley, Mid Wales Powys and Ceredigion, Newport Torfaen and Monmouth, North East Wales, Southampton, Torbay and South Devon, Wakefield, Waveney, Wearside
Note:
1These initiatives are being funded through the New Deal and Innovation Fund, therefore separate budget figures are not available.