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Temporary Employment

Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his estimate is of the number of temporary workers living in households with incomes below 60 per cent. of the national median. [271237]

Kitty Ussher: This information is not available, as it is not captured in the Family Resources Survey, the data source underlying the “Households Below Average Income 1994/95 to 2006/07” publication.

Unemployment: Young People

Mr. Streeter: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Plymouth under the age of 21 years were not in education, employment or training in each of the last three years. [270962]

Beverley Hughes: I have been asked to reply.

Connexions Services provide the Department with an estimate of the number and proportion of 16-18 year olds not in education, employment or training, and this information is available on the 14-19 website:

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http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/1419/index.cfm?go= site.home&sid=42&pid=343&lid=337&ctype= Text&ptype=Single

Figures for Plymouth for each of the last three years are shown in the following table.

Equivalent information is not available for young people aged between 19 and 21.

16-18 year olds NEET
	Number	Proportion (Percentage)
2006	710	7.4
2007	640	6.8
2008	690	7.4

Vacancies

Mr. Newmark: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many job vacancies in (a) Braintree constituency, (b) Essex and (c) England were notified to jobcentres in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008. [264442]

Mr. McNulty: The information requested is shown in the following tables.

T otal number of notified job vacancies in England, Essex local authority and Braintree parliamentary constituenc y
2006
	England	Essex	Braintree
January	153,312	3,003	271
February	212,248	5,422	499
March	209,404	4,982	496
April	277,748	6,630	623
May	183,291	4,374	486
June	221,130	4,806	355
July	301,379	7,736	406
August	245,845	5,344	468
September	328,761	6,210	479
October	307,865	7,201	653
November	249,232	5,743	427
December	266,798	6,337	436
Total (sum of each month)	2,957,013	67,788	5,599

2007
Date	England	Essex	Braintree
January	134,762	3,030	281
February	275,306	5,309	568
March	252,106	4,912	405
April	316,064	6,242	508
May	272,748	5,852	465
June	326,244	7,131	591
July	279,717	6,197	514
August	291,918	6,522	591
September	415,431	8,715	619
October	369,627	8,298	817
November	327,480	7,264	590
December	335,911	7,331	710
Total (sum of each month)	3,597,314	76,803	6,659

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January 2008 to January 2009
Date	England	Essex	Braintree
2008
January	167,538	3,397	350
February	390,824	8,593	724
March	309,509	6,590	721
April	294,506	5,994	657
May	291,373	6,526	441
June	355,367	8,144	523
July	271,897	6,706	462
August	346,587	8,203	625
September	300,383	6,299	578
October	313,928	6,864	512
November	326,910	6,855	702
December	202,896	3,923	418
Total (sum of each month)	3,571,718	78,094	6,713
2009
January	102,731	2,241	150
Notes: 1. Data are unrounded. 2. Changes to Jobcentre Plus vacancy handling procedures have led to a major discontinuity in the vacancy statistics pre- and post-May 2006. Consequently, care should be taken in interpreting time-series data. 3. These are not whole economy figures. Coverage relates just to vacancies notified to Jobcentre Plus and as such represent a market share of vacancies throughout the whole economy. This proportion varies over time, according to the occupation of the vacancy and industry of the employer, and by local area. 4. Comprehensive estimates of all job vacancies (not just those notified to Jobcentre Plus) are available from the monthly ONS Vacancy Survey since April 2001, based on a sample of some 6,000 enterprises. However, the ONS survey is currently designed to provide national estimates only. 5. Notified vacancies. Monthly data on the inflow of newly notified vacancies to Jobcentre Plus. Source: Jobcentre Plus Labour Market System.

Workstep

Derek Conway: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in each category of disability have been assisted through the Workstep programme since it was introduced. [261787]

Jonathan Shaw: The available information is in the table.

Number of individuals who received supported employment between 1 April 2001 and 1 December 2008
Main disabling condition	Number of individuals
All	32,450
Conditions Restricting Mobility Dexterity	5,480
Visual Impairment	1,580
Hearing and/or Speech Impairment	1,590
Long-term Medical Conditions	1,440
Learning Disability	10,210
Mental Health	3,050
Neurological Conditions	2,150
Other Health Conditions	1,360
Prefer not to say	1,590
Unknown	4,000
Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 2. The table shows the number of individuals who have been in supported employment for at least one day between 1 April 2001 and 1 December 2008. 3.An individual can be counted only once. If a person has more than one supported employment spell in the period, then their first spell and associated main disabling condition at that time is counted. Source: Department for Work and Pensions Workstep Evaluation Database—sourced from data returns from Workstep providers

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