To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer given to the right hon. Member for Birkenhead on 19 March 2007, Official Report, column 643W, how he determines whether a person leaving the new deal rolls has found a job. (130218)

The data provided on 19 March 2007, Official Report, column 643W, on whether a person has left new deal for lone parents to a job is obtained from the Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study, which draws together data from Department for Work and Pensions computer systems and from employment records supplied by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the cost to the public purse of an unemployed person returning to work under (a) the new deal self-employment programme and (b) other new deal programmes. (130399)

I refer the hon. Member to the written answer I gave to her on 23 March 2007, Official Report, columns 1184-86.