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Employment Schemes: Greater Manchester

Volume 494: debated on Monday 15 June 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many unemployed people aged over 50 years have been assisted back to work by her Department in (a) Denton and Reddish constituency, (b) Stockport metropolitan borough and (c) Tameside metropolitan borough in each year since 1997. (277505)

Information on the number of people aged 50 and over in the specified areas who have been helped into work through all sources is not available. Information on the number of people aged 50 and over who have been helped into work though the New Deal 50 plus programme is in the table.

New Deal 50 Plus

Location

Employment credit starts to March 2003

Number of people gaining a job from April 2003

Total job gains

Denton and Reddish constituency

170

110

280

Stockport metropolitan borough

390

210

600

Tameside metropolitan borough

340

260

600

Notes: 1. New Deal 50 plus was introduced in April 2000. 2. Available statistics on the New Deal 50+ programme prior to March 2003 comprised the number of people receiving the New Deal 50+ employment credit; an employment credit is paid to individuals during their first year back at work on a full-time basis. 3. Latest data are to August 2008. 4. Jobs gained from April 2006 are identified mainly from the Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study. Care should be taken when comparing jobs gained before and after April 2006. 5. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 and therefore may not sum to total due to rounding. Source: Department for Work and Pensions Information Directorate.