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Dept for Education and Employment

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Caroline Flint: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what the value was of his Department's financial support for employment and training since May 1997; and if he will list individual projects indicating the value of Government funding in the Doncaster/Wakefield employment district. [149071] Mr. Blunkett: My Department has invested substantially in employment and training. My Department does not normally present aggregate figures for expenditure on these programmes. Table 1 shows the Department's spending on employment programmes including Work Based Learning for Adults. It shows spending on certain training programmes including Work Based Training for Young People. Separately, it also shows expenditure on New Deals and other programmes funded by the Windfall Tax. The New Deals offer help and support, including skills training, to people looking for work. The table does not include expenditure on further education, some £3.5 billion in the current year, which includes funding for vocational education and training. Table 1 £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000{ 1} 2000-01{ 1} Employment programmes, 1,499 1,338 1,409 1,502 including: Work Based Learning for 382 272 289 318 Adults Other training programmes 903 950 1,015 1,192 New Deals and other 50 235 480 665 programmes funded by Windfall Tax _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Estimate Source: These figures are taken from the Departmental Annual Report 2000 and Budget 2001 Table 2 shows total estimated expenditure since April 1997 on employment programmes and New Deals in the Doncaster and Wakefield Employment Service districts. Due to organisational changes, data for 1997-98 are not available. Due to boundary changes, expenditure for 2000-01 on DfEE Mainstream programmes and the New Deals are not comparable. Table 2: Estimated expenditure on DfEE Mainstream employment programmes, New Deal programmes in the Doncaster and Wakefield Employment Service districts £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Payments made in Employment measures 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01{ 1} DfEE Mainstream programmes n/a 5.7 5.8 5.6 New Deal n/a 6.0 8.0 5.3 New Deal and Mainstream n/a 11.7 13.8 11.08 totals Employment Zone -- -- 0.3 2.2 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Forecast Source: Figures provided by the Employment Service Table 3 shows expenditure figures for training programmes in the Wakefield Training and Enterprise Council (TEC) and the Doncaster part of the Barnsley and Doncaster TEC. The TECs' figures for Strategic activity/ Discretionary Projects may include expenditure other than training. Table 3: Estimated payments to the Training and Enterprise Councils in the Wakefield and Doncaster areas supporting training activities £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Payments made in 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01{ 1} Work Based Training for 9.4 7.8 8.2 9.5 Young People Work Based Learning for 3.7 1.5 1.8 2.1 Adults Competitiveness 0.6 0.7 0.5 0.6 Strategic 1.6 1.5 1.7 1.4 activity/Discretionary Projects Total TEC payments 15.3 11.6 12.3 13.6 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Forecast Source: Figures provided by the Wakefield and Barnsley and Doncaster TECs

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

365 c408-10W;365 c408-9W; 149071

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Education Adult education Finance Employment schemes New deal schemes Training Wakefield Doncaster

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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