Departmental Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the budget under each budget sub-heading is of each of her Department’s employment programmes for (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11. (276439)

[holding answer 19 May 2009]: The following table shows the budgets for the Department of Work and Pensions employment programmes, by sub-heading, for 2009-10 and 2010-11.

*Budgets (to nearest £ million)*
Programme	2009-10	2010-11
Support for long-term unemployed	845	1,214
Additional support at six months	145	216
Young persons guarantee and future jobs fund	250	838
Lone parents and families	34	63
Support for disabled people	533	567
Other employment programmes	184	202
Totals	1,991	3,100

Volume 494: debated on Tuesday 16 June 2009