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Lone Parents: Social Security Benefits

Rosie Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in West Lancashire constituency were registered for lone parents’ benefit in the financial year ending March (a) 1997 and (b) 2007. [143533]

Mr. Jim Murphy: The available information is in the following table.

Lone parents in receipt of income support
West Lancashire parliamentary constituency

November 1997

1,700

November 2006

1,210

Notes:
1. Latest available data are for November 2006.
2. For comparative purposes, earlier data have been provided for November rather than March 1997.
3. Data sources have changed over time; 1997 data are taken from five per cent. samples, and 2006 data are taken from 100 per cent. samples.
4. Five per cent. data have been rounded to the nearest hundred; 100 per cent. data have been rounded to the nearest 10.
Source:
Department for Work and Pensions, Information Directorate.
Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.

National Insurance Contributions

Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when he expects to correct the statistics on second tier provision in 2004-05 following the validation of more class one national insurance contributions. [141527]

Mr. Plaskitt: The DWP are due to receive updated data from HMRC about valid class one contributions during July. We will then, under the national statistics protocols, analyse the effect of this update and decide whether a revision of the statistics is appropriate.

The second tier pension provision statistics accurately reflect the information held by HMRC for valid class one national insurance contributions at the time of publication.

New Deal for Disabled People

Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many participants in the new deal for disabled people were or have been on the
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scheme for more than 12 months since July 2001; and how many participants left for employment in each month since July 2001. [137646]

Mr. Jim Murphy [holding answer 18 May 2007]: Up to the end of November 2006, new deal for disabled people (NDDP) had been successful in helping 134,160 people into work, including 101,720 people who had registered with, and received assistance from, NDDP job brokers.

Participants on NDDP can remain on the programme for as long as they need help, and up to November 2006, 142,460 people are recorded as having been on the programme for more than 12 months.

When NDDP participants enter employment, they are not necessarily counted as leavers from the programme as they are entitled to a minimum of twenty-six weeks in-work support from their new deal provider.

Information in the table represents those people who left NDDP but elected to either not access the in-work support element of the programme, or to utilise this only for a short period of time. These participants are therefore the only group that appear under the definition of those leaving directly to employment.


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New deal for disabled people
Month Number of leavers with a recorded immediate destination of employment

July 2001

August 2001

September 2001

October 2001

November 2001

10

December 2001

10

January 2002

20

February 2002

70

March 2002

140

April 2002

190

May 2002

220

June 2002

160

July 2002

160

August 2002

220

September 2002

270

October 2002

290

November 2002

400

December 2002

340

January 2003

550

February 2003

380

March 2003

510

April 2003

480

May 2003

850

June 2003

550

July 2003

450

August 2003

650

September 2003

590

October 2003

1,330

November 2003

1,080

December 2003

890

January 2004

1,240

February 2004

1,240

March 2004

1,210

April 2004

1,190

May 2004

1,010

June 2004

1,220

July 2004

1,620

August 2004

1,440

September 2004

1,310

October 2004

2,140

November 2004

1,550

December 2004

1,730

January 2005

2,040

February 2005

2,050

March 2005

1,740

April 2005

1,720

May 2005

1,600

June 2005

1,880

July 2005

2,270

August 2005

1,790

September 2005

2,270

October 2005

1,810

November 2005

1,740

December 2005

1,980

January 2006

2,110

February 2006

2,250

March 2006

2,470

Notes:
1. All figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.
2. Latest data relate to the end of November 2006. A comparison between leavers to employment before and after April 2007 is not valid because of a change in the way data is collected on sustained employment.
3. New deal for disabled people was introduced in July 2001.
Source:
Information Directorate, Department for Work and Pensions

Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people registered with the new deal for disabled people in each year since 2001. [142538]

Mr. Jim Murphy: The information is in the following table.

New deal for disabled people
Number of people registering with a job broker

2001

5,810

2002

24,620

2003

30,710

2004

49,100

2005

59,510

2006

63,050

Notes:
1. Data for 2001 are from July 2001 when the programme began.
2. Latest complete year data is to December 2006.
Source:
New Deal Evaluation Database, Information Directorate, Department for Work and Pensions.

Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people entered (a) employment and (b) sustainable employment from the New Deal for Disabled People in each year since 2001. [142545]

Mr. Jim Murphy [holding answer 13 June 2007]: The information is in the following table.


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New Deal for Disabled People
People gaining a job( 1) Of which, gained a sustained job( 2)

2001(3)

1,000

910

2002

8,190

5,260

2003

16,240

9,550

2004

29,520

18,120

2005

37,750

20,630

(1). Includes people gaining a job through an NDDP Job Broker and those who are also registered with an NDDP Job Broker but who gain a job through a Jobcentre Plus Adviser. (2). Only includes those gaining work through an NDDP Job Broker as a sustainability measure is only available from jobs obtained through an NDDP Job Broker. (3). Data are from July 2001. Notes: 1. Latest complete year data is for 2005. 2. An NDDP job is regarded as sustained when a person who has been placed into work through an NDDP Job Broker remains in work for 13 out of 39 weeks. Prior to October 2003, an NDDP job was regarded as sustained when a person, placed into work through an NDDP Job Broker, remained in work for 26 out of 39 weeks. Source: New Deal Evaluation Database, Information Directorate, Department for Work and Pensions.

New Deal for Partners

Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many participants of the new deal for partners left the scheme for employment in each month since 1998; and how many returned to benefit within six months of having left the new deal. [141113]

Mr. Jim Murphy [holding answer 7 June 2007]: The latest available information is in the following table.

Information on leavers from new deal for partners is only available from May 2004.

This is the earliest date from which information has been collected centrally.


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Month of leaving new deal for partners (NDP) Number of participants leaving NDP to employment Number returning to benefit within six months of leaving NDP

May 2004

10

0

June 2004

20

0

July 2004

10

0

August 2004

20

0

September 2004

40

0

October 2004

30

0

November 2004

40

0

December 2004

30

10

January 2005

30

10

February 2005

30

0

March 2005

60

10

April 2005

40

0

May 2005

40

10

June 2005

60

0

July 2005

50

0

August 2005

50

10

September 2005

40

0

October 2005

50

0

November 2005

50

0

December 2005

20

0

January 2006

40

0

February 2006

30

0

March 2006

30

0

April 2006

30

0

May 2006

40

0

June 2006

40

0

July 2006

20

0

August 2006

30

0

September 2006

30

0

October 2006

20

0

November 2006

40

0

Notes:
1. Figures are rounded to the nearest ten.
2. Destinations are measured within two weeks of leaving new deal, using the WPLS.
Source:
New Deal Evaluation Database, and the Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS)

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