The available information is in the following table.
New deal for young people New deal for 25 plus New deal for young people and new deal 25 plus New deal for 50 plus New deal for lone parents New deal for disabled people New deal for partners Total 1997-98 12 — — — — — — 12 1998-99 162 17 — — 1 — — 180 1999-2000 282 71 — 1 12 15 — 381 2000-01 293 42 — 45 14 7 1 402 2001-02 219 140 — 82 9 4 2 456 2002-03 221 167 — 82 18 16 — 504 2003-04 264 189 — 41 20 28 — 542 2004-05 254 179 — 3 24 65 1 526 2005-06 — — 3231 1 26 68 1 419 Total 1,707 805 3231 255 124 203 5 3,422 Notes: 1. There is no split currently available between new deal for young people and new deal 25 plus for 2005-06. The expenditure has been presented as a combined figure until an apportionment is made in the departmental report. 2. Spend data include all new deal programme costs and allowances paid to participants apart from the 50 plus element of the working tax credit. As this is not included, new deal 50 plus costs reduce after 2002-03. 3. Following agreement with HM Treasury in 2002-03, ring fences were removed from new deal. Administrative costs are excluded as it is no longer possible to identify the costs of administering the costs of each new deal separately from the costs of other labour market activities. 4. Expenditure data include start-up costs. 5. Following changes to the new deal 25 plus programme in April 2001 when a mandatory intensive activity period was introduced, programme costs rose significantly. 6. Expenditure for new deal for partners in 2002-03 and 2003-04 is not recorded in the table as, excluding administrative costs, costs were around £300,000 for both years and all figures are rounded to the nearest million. New deal for partners was re-launched in April 2004. 7. Programme start dates are: new deal for young people: January 1998; new deal 25 plus: July 1998; new deal for lone parents: October 1998; new deal for partners: April 1999; new deal 50 plus: April 2000; new deal for disabled people: July 2001 (new deal for disabled people pilots ran from September 1998 to June 2001). 8. Latest figures are to March 2006. Source: DWP Departmental Reports 2004-05, Jobcentre Plus Accounts 2005-06
[holding answer 23 April 2007]: The information is in the following table.
£ million Region 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 Total East Midlands — 8 17 18 20 21 20 20 13 136 East of England — 7 14 14 13 14 16 17 18 112 London — 11 33 36 39 51 66 77 59 371 North East — 12 25 28 31 31 32 30 19 207 North West — 14 37 40 43 43 51 44 39 311 Office for Scotland — 10 34 40 38 45 46 42 31 286 Office for Wales — 7 20 23 21 24 23 22 13 154 South East — 6 12 14 12 15 18 22 23 121 South West — 9 17 19 18 18 19 21 16 137 West Midlands — 8 20 22 30 31 33 31 21 196 Yorkshire and Humberside — 18 36 39 36 38 37 33 36 273 Non regional1 12 70 115 110 155 174 182 168 131 1,118 Total 212 180 381 402 456 504 542 526 419 3,422 1 Relates to centrally administered expenditure, some of which is spent locally, for example, new deal allowances. Also includes new deal programme research. 2 Expenditure in the 1997-98 financial year was centrally administered. Notes: 1. Figures exclude administrative expenditure. 2. Figures are subject to rounding differences and totals may not sum due to rounding. Source: Departmental Report up to March 2005; Jobcentre Plus Accounts to March 2006.