[holding answer 20 June 2007]: We will respond to the Freud report in the summer.
The available information is in the following table.
Spend (£ million) 2001-02 4 2002-03 16 2003-04 28 2004-05 65 2005-06 68 Notes: 1. Data are in financial not calendar years. 2. 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. Source: DWP Departmental Reports 2004-05, Jobcentre Plus Accounts 2005-06.
(2) what training is compulsory for people who are entering the New Deal 50 plus for the (a) first time and (b) second and subsequent times;
(3) what training is compulsory for people who are entering the new deal for lone parents for the (a) first time and (b) second and subsequent times.
New deal for disabled people, new deal 50 plus and new deal for lone parents are all voluntary programmes and no element of these programmes is compulsory for participants.
(2) how many people over 50 years participated in the new deal in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the north east and (d) the UK in each year since its inception;
(3) how many over 25-year-olds participated in the new deal in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the north east and (d) the UK in each year since its inception;
(4) how many young people in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the north east and (d) the UK participated in the new deal in each year since its inception;
(5) how many people in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the north east and (d) the UK participated in the new deal in each year since its inception.
The available information is in the following tables.
People starting New deal for young people New deal 25 plus New deal for lone parents New deal 50 plus New deal 1998 330 60 10 — 400 1999 320 120 140 — 580 2000 260 120 170 — 550 2001 290 260 150 — 700 2002 260 290 150 — 700 2003 270 300 210 — 780 2004 290 210 270 50 830 2005 280 220 380 70 990 2006 400 330 340 30 1,110
People starting New deal for young people New deal 25 plus New deal for lone parents New deal 50 plus New deal 1998 680 130 30 — 840 1999 680 270 300 — 1,250 2000 570 310 330 — 1,210 2001 630 650 340 — 1,620 2002 570 710 330 — 1,610 2003 620 700 420 — 1,740 2004 650 550 560 140 1,920 2005 670 570 740 220 2,260 2006 960 740 600 50 2,370
People starting New deal for young people New deal 25 plus New deal for lone parents New deal 50 plus New deal 1998 9,600 2,650 410 — 12,660 1999 9,200 4,570 3,240 — 17,010 2000 8,760 4,320 3,160 — 16,240 2001 8,430 5,620 3,790 — 18,610 2002 8,360 6,420 5,010 — 22,510 2003 8,610 5,470 5,410 — 23,270 2004 7,410 4,330 7,150 1,720 26,160 2005 8,290 4,620 7,670 1,830 28,150 2006 11,760 6,320 7,210 820 33,050
People starting New deal for young people New deal 25 plus New deal for lone parents New deal 50 plus New deal 1998 137,010 40,430 8,860 — 186,300 1999 128,150 72,060 59,120 — 259,330 2000 115,370 60,530 59,130 — 235,030 2001 106,950 76,380 64,080 — 253,220 2002 110,730 81,610 86,690 — 303,650 2003 122,690 80,690 90,900 — 324,990 2004 115,760 80,250 114,660 36,090 397,780 2005 128,500 78,800 122,080 26,730 418,110 2006 178,690 94,210 115,240 15,930 469,170 Notes: 1. Information on new deal is available for Great Britain, not the UK. 2. Information for South Tyneside is available by local authority area. 3. Information for the north east is available by Jobcentre Plus region. 4. Information for new deal as a whole includes, where available, data for new deal for disabled people and new deal for partners. Individual new deal figures may thus not sum to totals. 5. Information on people joining the new deal 50 plus caseload is only available from January 2004. 6. Information is for individuals. If a person has started new deal more than once, only their latest start is included in the table. Source: New Deal Evaluation Database, Information Directorate, Department for Work and Pensions.