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Question reference: S5W-14129

  • Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: 26 January 2018
  • Current status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 9 February 2018

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many employment opportunities, including apprenticeships, have been made available to unemployed young people as a result of Scotland's Employer Recruitment Incentive (SERI), broken down by (a) disabled people or people with a long-term health condition, (b) care-experienced young people, (c) carers, (d) people with convictions, including community payback orders, (e) early leavers from the armed forces, veterans or ex-forces personnel, (f) people unemployed for six months or more who are not on the Work Programme or a Community Work Placement, (g) people who have failed their ESA Work Capability Assessment, (h) Work Programme completers who remain unemployed, (i) ethnic minority groups, (j) people from the Gypsy/Traveller community, (k) partners of current or ex-Armed Forces personnel, (l) people requiring support with language, literacy or numeracy, including those for whom English is an additional language, (m) lone parents, (n) people with lower than SCQF Level 5 qualifications, (o) young people who received additional support for learning in school, (p) refugees or other people granted leave to stay in the UK, (q) homeless people, including those in temporary or unstable accommodation and (r) people affected by substance misuse.


Answer

The information on the number of employment opportunities supported by Scotland’s Employer Recruitment Incentive, broken down by eligible groups in set out in the following table.

 

Eligibility

 

Employment Opportunities

2016-17

Disability or long term health condition

162

Care Experienced

21

Carer

20

Person with a conviction

26

Early leaver from forces & veterans

*

Partner of current or ex-armed forces

*

Long term unemployed (6 months +)

116

Failed ESA Work Capability Assessment

0

Work Programme completer - unemployed

*

Ethnic minority groups

15

Gypsy/Travelling community

0

Language, Literacy, Numeracy (Inc ESOL)

22

Lone Parent

8

Person with lower than SCQF Level 5

130

Received additional support - learning in school

15

Refugee or other granted leave to stay in the UK

0

Person affected by substance misuse

*

Homeless person

7

 

Those marked with a * are to protect anonymity as the numbers are less than 5.

** Eligibility for SERI changes in 2016-17. Figures in 2015-16 broadly reflect the same criteria.