Written question asked by Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative) on Tuesday, 11 July 2000, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 19 July 2000. It was answered by Angela Eagle (Labour) on Wednesday, 19 July 2000 on behalf of the Department of Social Security.

Dept of Social Security

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many people have moved to sustained unsubsidised employment from the New Deal for Lone Parents; and what percentage he estimates would have found employment without the New Deal for Lone Parents. - Inc figures and ref to evaluation reports in Library.

Answer: Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people have moved to sustained unsubsidised employment from the New Deal for Lone Parents; and what percentage he estimates would have found employment without the New Deal for Lone Parents. [130682] Angela Eagle: Up to the end of April, 54,241 lone parents had obtained jobs following participation in the New Deal for Lone Parents programme. All NDLP jobs are unsubsidised. The evaluation of the programme's prototype phase, which ran from July 1997 to October 1998, estimates how many jobs gained were additional to those that would have occurred without the programme. Copies of the evaluation reports are available in the Library. This estimated that NDLP virtually paid for itself. Comprehensive evaluation of the national phase of the NDLP programme is being conducted and will report in 2002.

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