Mr. FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many women in Birkenhead have benefited from the (a) New Deal for Lone Parents and (b) New Deal for Partners since 1997; and if he will make a statement; [166508]
(2) how many lone parents in Birkenhead have gained work through the New Deal programme. [166511]
§ Jane KennedyThe New Deal is working. Over one million people have been helped into work since its inception. On New Deal for Lone Parents alone there have been almost 460,000 entrants to the programme and over 240,000 of the lone parents participating have found work.
Statistics for New Deal for Partners are not available at constituency level. The information requested on the number of women benefiting from New Deal for Lone Parents is in the table.
Number of Women Participating in New Deal for Lone Parents in Birkenhead
Number of New Deal Participants1
Number of New Deal Starts 2 1,310 1,630 Source: New Deal evaluation Database, Information and Analysis Directorate, DWP. Notes: 1 All figures relate to individuals who have started each programme. 2 An individual may have had more than one start over the period. Seven Hundred and Forty lone parents have gained work through the New Deal for Lone Parents in Birkenhead. Information on the family circumstances of the participants of other New Deals is not available.
Mr. ChapmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many lone parents in Wirral South have gained work through the New Deal programme. [166632]
§ Jane Kennedy210 lone parents have gained work in Wirral South through New Deal for Lone Parents.
Information on how many lone parents have gained work through other New Deal progammes is not available.
§ Mr. WillettsTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) if he will break down by geographical area the information given in the latest Office of National Statistics' Statistics on the New Deal immediate destinations of people leaving the New Deal for Young People (Table 4) and the enhanced New Deal 25 plus (Table 5); [166351]
(2) in the latest Office of National Statistics' statistics on the New Deal, if he will break down by benefit to which individuals moved, the information given in the 446W column on transfers to other benefits in Table 5 of the Immediate Destination on leaving the enhanced New Deal 25 plus; [166379]
(3) if he will break down by benefit to which individuals moved, the information given in the column on other benefits in Table 4 of the Immediate Destination on leaving the New Deal for Young People in the latest Office of National Statistics's Statistics on the New deal. [166380]
§ Jane Kennedy[holding answer 19 April 2004]: Latest information on the immediate destinations of people leaving New Deal for Young People and New Deal 25 plus, broken down by Jobcenter Plus region, has been placed in the Library.
A further breakdown of immediate destinations on leaving New Deal for Young People and New Deal 25plus is not available. Work is currently underway examining our data sources and systems, exploring the possibility of linking these to provide information such as that requested.