Written question asked by Lord McCabe (Labour) on Thursday, 28 February 2013, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 4 March 2013. It was answered by Mark Hoban (Conservative) on Tuesday, 12 March 2013 on behalf of the Treasury. Department for Work and Pensions was asked to reply.
Unemployment: Young People
- Question
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 25 February 2013, Official Report, column 197W, on unemployment: young people, how many young people have been supported by the Youth Contract in (a) England, (b) the West Midlands and (c) Birmingham to date.
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- Answer
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I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.
The Youth Contract has a number of elements; the Department for Work and Pensions delivers some, but not all, of these elements.
Statistics on work experience and sector based work academies are available at the following link. These programmes were in place before the introduction of the Youth Contract. Statistics on these elements of the Youth Contract are included within this published data, which includes breakdowns such as age group or region.
http://statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/pwp/pwp_gbw_feb13.pdf
In most cases the wage incentive element of the Youth Contract is paid after a young person has been in work continuously for 26 weeks. Following the collection and quality assurance of this data, the first set of Official Statistics on the wage incentive should be available in the next few months.
The Youth Contract also includes additional advisor support for young people. There will be no official statistics on this element.
The support for 16 to 17-year-olds not in education, employment, or training (NEETs) element of the Youth Contract is owned by the Department for Education.
The Apprenticeship Grants for Employers (AGE 16-24) element of the Youth Contract is owned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
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- 146355; 560 c139W
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- 2012-13
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- Young people Unemployment
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