To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make a statement on the results of the consultation carried out in connection with his Workstep proposals, with specific reference to target-setting. - Includes fact that 'Summary of Responses' placed in Library. (Holding answer 13 February 2001).

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make a statement on the results of the consultation carried out in connection with his Workstep proposals, with specific reference to target-setting. - Includes fact that 'Summary of Responses' placed in Library. (Holding answer 13 February 2001).

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what studies he has commissioned into incentives to move into open employment from supported employment and the likely impact on those providers of supported employment who fail to qualify for those incentives.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what studies he has commissioned into incentives to move into open employment from supported employment and the likely impact on those providers of supported employment who fail to qualify for those incentives.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what studies he has commissioned into the future demand for supported employment involving the first or rehabilitated employment of persons disabled and out of work and of the unit cost of widening access to employment for those in these categories.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what studies he has commissioned into the future demand for supported employment involving the first or rehabilitated employment of persons disabled and out of work and of the unit cost of widening access to employment for those in these categories.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what studies he has commissioned into the nature of open employment taken by those leaving supported employment and into the skill grades and remuneration involved compared with those available under their previous supported employment.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what studies he has commissioned into the nature of open employment taken by those leaving supported employment and into the skill grades and remuneration involved compared with those available under their previous supported employment.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what consultations he has had with interested parties about the implications of the new Workstep programme for the economic viability and maintenance of employment in sheltered employment factories. - (Holding answer 8 January 2001).

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what consultations he has had with interested parties about the implications of the new Workstep programme for the economic viability and maintenance of employment in sheltered employment factories. - (Holding answer 8 January 2001).