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31.
Mr. Dismore
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many young people have obtained employment through the new deal to date. [75606]
Mr. Andrew Smith
The latest Government Statistical Service figure to the end of December 1998, and provisional Management Information to the end of January 1999, show that 58,500 young people have already found employment through or with the help of the New Deal initiative.