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Robert Rymer
WDTK
Dear Mr Rymer
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received on 30th October. Your request was:-
DWP web site states. `The New Deals have been the most successful innovation in the history of the UK labour market. During the last 10 years, the New Deals have helped more than 1.8 million people into work'. How many of the 1.8 million that new deal helped into work in the last 10 years stayed in the job for more than 4 months?
Section 21 of the Act allows us to direct you to information which is already reasonably accessible to you. The Department publishes a wide range of statistics on benefit claimants and expenditure on its website www.dwp.gov.uk and on the Nomis website www.nomisweb.co.uk , which is the Office for National Statistics' official website of labour market statistics, both of which allow you to construct your own tables.
In answer to your request, statistics are not produced on how many New Deal participants stayed in a job for 4 months. Statistics are produced on the number of people gaining a sustainable job through New Deal Young People (NDYP), New Deal for 25 plus (ND25) and New Deal for Lone Parents (NDLP). The definition of a sustainable job is where someone does not return to Jobseekers allowance for 13 weeks (NDLP/ND25+) or is recorded as having a job lasting at least 13 weeks (NDLP). This information is published on the DWP web and can be accessed as follows:
Click on the following link http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/tabtool.asp
Scroll down the page to the section labelled Employment Programmes
Click on the New Deal you are interested in, for example New Deal for Young People
Then click on the drop down menu labelled Benefit/Scheme
Select (for example) New Deal for Young People - Jobs (individuals)
Using the drop down menus make the following selections:
Analysis: People gaining a job (thousands)
Row: Gender
Column: Type of job gained
Subset: None
Date: Select the available month (which will be the most recent data published)
Then click the Action Get Table button
The required table will be produced.
Information on sustainability of jobs for those not on a compulsory New Deal are not available.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
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DWP Central Freedom of Information Team
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FOI ref no 2212 (2009)
19 November 2009