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Dept for Work and Pensions

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Mr. Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people have started each of the New Deal for employment programmes in each (a) metropolitan authority and (b) county area in the North East region; how many of them have entered employment; how many have entered the New Deal schemes (i) once, (ii) twice, (iii) three times and (iv) three or more times; and how many entering the scheme entered employment in each case. [204428] Mr. Pond: The New Deal has been successful in helping well over a million people into work. Information on New Deal for Disabled People and New Deal for Partners is not available broken down by these geographical districts. Information for New Deal 50 plus, broken down by these geographical districts, is only available up to March 2003 and is for starts to the New Deal 50 plus employment credit, which can only be received once. The available information is in the tables. New Deal for Young People--starts, number of times on the programme and people gaining a job _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Tyne and Wear Cleveland County Durham Northumberland All people People starting 29,720 17,640 13,120 5,930 People gaining a job 18,380 10,880 8,810 3,960 Once People starting 20,880 12,620 9,480 4,300 People gaining a job 11,830 7,130 5,960 2,670 Twice People starting 6,390 3,660 2,660 1,160 People gaining a job 4,640 2,770 2,060 910 Three times People starting 1,930 1,150 790 370 People gaining a job 1,510 890 630 300 Three times or more People starting 2,440 1,370 980 470 People gaining a job 1,910 1,050 790 380 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. New Deal 25 plus--starts, number of times on the programme and people gaining a job _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Tyne and Wear Cleveland County Durham Northumberland All people People starting 19,150 7,390 7,390 3,570 People gaining a job 7,070 2,440 3,270 1,430 Once People starting 12,270 5,840 4,830 2,330 People gaining a job 4,890 2,030 2,300 1,000 Twice People starting 4,170 1,330 1,570 770 People gaining a job 1,400 340 670 300 Three times People starting 1,930 180 680 320 People gaining a job 580 50 220 100 Three times or more People starting 2,710 220 990 460 People gaining a job 780 60 300 130 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. New Deal for Lone Parents--starts, number of times on the programme and people gaining a job _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Tyne and Wear Cleveland County Durham Northumberland All people People starting 13,970 8,170 7,210 2,910 People gaining a job 8,240 4,790 4,490 1,640 Once People starting 7,080 3,820 3,180 1,400 People gaining a job 4,310 2,330 2,070 810 Twice People starting 3,950 2,480 1,980 790 People gaining a job 2,190 1,330 1,100 430 Three times People starting 1,880 1,190 1,190 470 People gaining a job 1,010 650 670 220 Three times or more People starting 2,940 1,870 2,050 730 People gaining a job 1,740 1,120 1,320 400 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Starts to ND50 plus employment credit _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Tyne and Wear 2,680 Cleveland 1,360 County Durham 1,410 Northumberland 650 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1. Data for New Deal for Young People is from January 1998 to September 2004. 2. Data for New Deal 25 plus is from July 1998 to September 2004. 3. Data for New Deal for Lone Parents is from October 1998 to September 2004. 4. Data for New Deal 50 plus are from April 2002 to March 2003. Data broken down by these geographical districts is not available after March 2003 for New Deal 50 plus. 5. Information for Tyne and Wear consists of the following parliamentary constituencies: Blaydon; Gateshead East and Washington West; Houghton and Washington East; Jarrow; Newcastle upon Tyne Central; Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend; Newcastle upon Tyne North; North Tyneside; South Shields; Sunderland North; Sunderland South; Tyne Bridge; Tynemouth. 6. Information for Cleveland consists of the following parliamentary constituencies: Hartlepool; Middlesbrough; Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland; Redcar; Stockton North; Stockton South. 7. Information for County Durham, including the Darlington unitary authority consists of the following parliamentary constituencies: Bishop Auckland; City of Durham; Darlington; Easington; North Durham; North West Durham; Sedgefield. 8. Information for Northumberland consists of the following parliamentary constituencies: Berwick-upon-Tweed; Blyth Valley; Hexham; Wansbeck 9. Geographical areas provided are as defined on the Parliament UK website. 10. All figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Source: DWP Information and Analysis Directorate

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

428 c1734-6W;428 c1732-4W; 204428

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Employment Employment schemes North East New deal schemes Unemployment Take-up Metropolitan districts

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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