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Affordable Housing
Mr. Breed: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list by category, the number of key sector workers living in affordable housing in rural areas in each of the last 10 years. [54815]
Ms Keeble: I have been asked to reply.
Information is not available in this form.
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WORK AND PENSIONS
New Deal
Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people living in the London Borough of Wandsworth have taken up the New Deal options. [53876]
Mr. Nicholas Brown: The information is in the tables.
| Option | Number of people in London Borough of Wandsworth taking up an option (up to January 2002) |
|---|---|
| Employment | 99 |
| Full Time Education and Training | 459 |
| Voluntary Sector | 157 |
| Environment Task Force | 85 |
| Total | 800 |
| Number of people in London Borough of Wandsworth taking up an option (up to January 2002) | |
| Employment | 53 |
| Full Time Education and Training | 85 |
| Work Based Learning for Adults | 268 |
| Total | 406 |
| Option | Number of people in London Borough of Wandsworth taking up an option (up to January 2002) |
|---|---|
| Employment | 1 |
| Basic Employability Training/Basic Skills | 11 |
| Self Employment | 8 |
| Education and Training Opportunity | 0 |
| Work Experience/Placements | 1 |
| Intensive Activity Period Training | 43 |
| Other | 0 |
| Total | 64 |
Source:
New Deal Evaluation Database
* In April 2001 New Deal 25 Plus was enhanced to provide more flexible, individually-tailored help for long term unemployed people.
Access to Work Scheme
Mr. Kirkwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how Access to Work has been promoted (a) in the UK and (b) in Edinburgh East and Borders. [53043]
Mr. Nicholas Brown [holding answer 7 May 2002]: Access to Work was promoted through the Employment Service. Since the start of April responsibility for promoting Access to Work passed to Jobcentre Plus. Jobcentre Plus promotes awareness of the whole range of its services, including support available to disabled people and their employers, through media such as leaflets, audio tapes, videos and the Jobcentre Plus website.
In Scotland, the Access to Work Business Centre Manager and Access to Work Advisers take part in events with General Practitioners and at job fairs and give presentations to employers and interested organisations.
Employment assistance schemes in Northern Ireland are the responsibility of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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Mr. Kirkwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the (a) budget, (b) actual and (c) estimated outturn has been of the Access to Work scheme (i) in the UK and (ii) in the Edinburgh East and Borders district, in each year since creation. [53041]
Mr. Nicholas Brown [holding answer 7 May 2002]: The information available is in the table.
| Budget | Actual Spend | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | England, Scotland and Wales | Edinburgh East and Borders(3) | England, Scotland and Wales | Edinburgh East and Borders | |
| 2000–01 | £25.7m | Not available | £32.4m | £1.2m | |
| 1999–00 | £24.3m | Not available | £24.4m | £620,847 | |
| 1998–99 | £19.0m | Not available | £19.5m | £379,975 | |
| 1997–98 | £19.0m | Not available | £14.6m | £320,123 | |
| 1996–97 | £19.0m | Not available | £12.5m | Not available(4) | |
| 1995–96 | £13.4m | Not available | £19.9m | Not available(4) | |
| 1994–95 | £14.6m | Not available | £15.7m | Not available(4) | |
Source:
DWP Access to Work Management Information
(3) Before 2001, Access to Work was delivered through a network of Disability Service Teams in Scotland. Because of several boundary changes over the course of the last few years, these figures have not been collected separately. The information could therefore be provided only at disproportionate cost.
(4) Figures on actual spend for Edinburgh East and Borders can only be provided as far back as the 1997–98 financial year.
(5) Employment assistance schemes in Northern Ireland are the responsibility of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Action Team for Jobs
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many unemployed people have received support through the Action Teams for Jobs initiative; and how many found work as a consequence of the initiative. [47927]
Mr. Nicholas Brown: Action Teams for Jobs are set up to tackle the problems of endemic joblessness in the most employment deprived areas in the country. Up to the end of February 2002, Action Teams for Jobs had engaged with 62,506 eligible jobless people and helped 23,745 of them into work. The Teams have also helped a number of people living outside their areas that are not recorded in the statistics.
Employment Zone Scheme
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people are involved in (a) stage 1 and (b) stage 2 of the Employment Zone scheme in each of the 15 Employment Zone areas. [47930]
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Mr. Nicholas Brown: The information is in the table.
| Number of current participants (at 31 January 2002) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment Zone | Step 1 | Step 2 | |
| Birmingham | 2,225 | 2,423 | |
| Brent | 424 | 380 | |
| Brighton | 238 | 349 | |
| Doncaster | 587 | 531 | |
| Glasgow | 776 | 768 | |
| Haringey | 935 | 1,154 | |
| Liverpool | 1,422 | 2,628 | |
| Middlesbrough | 219 | 319 | |
| Newham | 528 | 825 | |
| North West Wales | 460 | 335 | |
| Nottingham | 194 | 226 | |
| Plymouth | 166 | 232 | |
| Southwark | 682 | 933 | |
| Tower Hamlets | 347 | 313 | |
| Heads of the Valleys | 170 | 356 | |
| TOTAL | 9,373 | 11,772 | |
Source:
Employment Zone Management Information.
Employment Zones vary in size and coverage.
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much has been (a) budgeted and (b) spent on the Employment Zone scheme in each year since its introduction; and how much of the allocation in each year went into personal job accounts. [47929]
Mr. Nicholas Brown: The Department does not receive information from contractors on the specific amounts spent on personal job accounts. This is because funding for the personal job account is drawn from the overall payments made to the contractors. Expenditure on personal job accounts by contractors varies according to the needs of each participant.
In the financial year April 2000–March 2001, the Employment Zone budget was £56,374,000 and the spend was £71,950,885.
For the financial year April 2001–March 2002 the budget was £87,026,000. Forecast expenditure will be published in the Departmental Report in May.
Reasons for the differences between the spend on Employment Zones and budget include better than anticipated performance by Zone contractors and more participants entering the programme earlier than forecast.
The budget for 2001–02 includes funding for those who joined Employment Zones during the year and have not yet completed Steps 1 and 2.
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people have been helped into sustained employment via the Employment Zone scheme (a) in each year since its introduction and (b) broken down according to each employment zone. [47928]
Mr. Nicholas Brown: Between April 2000, when they were launched, and January 2002, Employment Zones have helped 20,850 people into work. Of these, 14,743 have been helped into sustained employment.
The information on each Employment Zone is in the table.
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| Employment Zone | Number of people helped into sustained employment (cumulative total up to 31 January 2002) |
|---|---|
| Birmingham | 2,708 |
| Brent | 690 |
| Brighton | 859 |
| Doncaster | 480 |
| Glasgow | 1,730 |
| Haringey | 1,847 |
| Liverpool | 1,693 |
| Middlesbrough | 615 |
| Newham | 867 |
| North West Wales | 246 |
| Nottingham | 333 |
| Plymouth | 466 |
| Southwark | 1,136 |
| Tower Hamlets | 602 |
| Heads of the Valley | 471 |
Source:
Employment Zone Management Information
Employment Zones vary in size and coverage
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