New Deal Schemes: Self-employed

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what projection he has made of the number of people likely to go through the new deal self-employment programme in the next 12 months; and how many went through it in each of the last three years; (125884)

(2) what the cost is to the public purse of an unemployed person returning to work under (a) the new deal self-employment programme and (b) other employment programmes.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people completed the new deal self-employment programme in the last three years for which figures are available. (126061)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many people are expected to participate in the new deal self-employment programme in 2007-08; and how many people participated in the programme in each of the last three years; (126537)

(2) what assessment he has made of the cost to the public purse for an unemployed person to return to work under the new deal self-employment programme compared with other employment programmes;

(3) whether his Department has assessed the relative rates at which participants return to work under the new deal self-employment programme compared with other employment programmes.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many people are expected to pass through the new deal self-employment programme in 2007; and what the figure was in each of the last three years; (124686)

(2) what assessment his Department has made of the relative merits of returning to work under the new deal self-employment programme compared with other employment programmes.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what assessment he has made of the relative benefits to (a) Government and (b) unemployed people of returning to work under the new deal self-employment programme and other employment programmes; (125769)

(2) how many people he expects to go through the new deal self-employment programme in 2007-08; and how many went through in each of the previous three years;

(3) how much it costs the public purse on average for an unemployed person to return to work under (a) the new deal self-employment programme and (b) other employment programmes.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what estimate 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 employment programmes; (126843)

(2) what estimate he has made of the number of people likely to go through the new deal self-employment programme in 2007; and how many went through the programme in each of the last three years;

(3) whether his Department has assessed the relative effectiveness of returning to work under the new deal self-employment programme and other employment programmes.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) whether he has estimated the cost to the public purse of assisting an unemployed person to return to work under the (a) new deal self-employment programme and (b) other employment programmes; (127435)

(2) what estimate he has made of the number of people likely to participate in the new deal self-employment programme in the next 12 months; and how many people participated in each of the previous three years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the new deal self-employment programme at returning people to work compared with other employment programmes. (129256)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the new deal self-employment programme; and if he will make a statement. (130400)

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

Volume 459: debated on Wednesday 2 May 2007