Where bidding organisations fail to meet the Future Jobs Fund assessment criteria they are provided with feedback and offered further support from DWP, Jobcentre Plus and the Government Office network to enable them to improve and submit their bids. As a result of this process, so far, 38 of the initially rejected organisations have subsequently successful.
A total of 272 bids to the Future Jobs Fund have been accepted, which will create up to 110,000 Future Jobs Fund jobs.
We encourage partnership bids but would not necessarily rule out bids for fewer than 30 jobs.
So far, 18 of the 272 accepted bids are expected to create fewer than 30 jobs.
To date 255 bids have been successful and the Department for Work and Pensions has agreed to fund around 110,000 jobs.
(2) how many jobs created under the Future Jobs Fund have been in (a) local authorities and (b) third sector organisations.
The information is not available in the requested format.
(2) how many of the jobs announced to date are expected to be created in each constituency.
Data on the Future Jobs Fund are not collected by local authority or by constituency, and as such the data of how many jobs are to be created in each are not available.
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My Department is working closely with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and we have created more than 6,500 job opportunities in the culture and sports sectors under the Future Jobs Fund.