- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 23 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has reviewed South Lanarkshire Council's direct labour organisation in the last three months.
Answer
No.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 23 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has reviewed North Lanarkshire Council's direct labour organisation in the last three months.
Answer
Under the terms of the section 19B Direction, the Scottish Executive is involved in regular contact with and monitoring of North Lanarkshire Council's DLO.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 23 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-878 by Henry McLeish on 31 August 1999, whether it will provide updated information on the number of people in each unit of delivery currently enrolled in each of the following New Deal options: (a) full-time education and training, (b) voluntary sector and (c) environmental task force.
Answer
Employment policy is reserved to the UK Government which takes the lead on funding and delivery of the New Deal. In Scotland it does this in partnership with the Scottish Executive and contributing Scottish organisations as indicated in the answer to question S1W-3137 also answered today.
The table below shows the numbers in Scotland by Unit of Delivery currently enrolled (end September figures) in each of the following New Deal options: (a) full-time education and training, (b) voluntary sector, and (c) environment task force.
Unit of Delivery | Full Time Education/Training | Voluntary Sector | Environment Task Force |
Ayrshire | 145 | 105 | 85 |
| Borders | 25 | 7 | 20 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 62 | 17 | 16 |
| Edinburgh, East & Midlothian | 107 | 75 | 76 |
| Forth Valley | 128 | 46 | 69 |
| Glasgow | 467 | 201 | 228 |
| Grampian | 55 | 41 | 20 |
| Inverness & Nairn | 15 | 6 | 16 |
| Lanarkshire | 285 | 123 | 188 |
| Renfrewshire | 99 | 70 | 74 |
| Tayside | 127 | 63 | 100 |
| Western Isles | 13 | 5 | 12 |
| Dunbarton | 118 | 27 | 65 |
| Fife | 258 | 61 | 75 |
| Moray, Strathspey & Badenoch | 8 | 8 | 18 |
| West Lothian | 24 | 16 | 21 |
| Argyll & the Islands | 16 | 10 | 31 |
| Caithness & Sutherland | 26 | 4 | 12 |
| Lochaber | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Orkney | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Ross & Cromarty | 17 | 1 | 9 |
| Shetland | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Skye & Lochalsh | 4 | 0 | 1 |
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 23 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-1030 by Henry McLeish on 6 September 1999, whether it will provide an updated breakdown of expenditure to date on each New Deal programme other than the New Deal for Young People.
Answer
Employment policy is reserved to the UK Government which takes the lead on funding and delivery of the New Deal. In Scotland it does this in partnership with the Scottish Executive and contributing Scottish organisations as indicated in the answer to question S1W-3137 also answered today.
The expenditure on each New Deal programme other than the New Deal for Young People in Scotland from April 1998 to November 1999 was:
(a) New Deal 50 plus pathfinder: £0.02 million
(b) New Deal 25 plus: £9.2 million
(c) New Deal for Partners of Unemployed People: £0.2 million
(d) New Deal for Disabled People pilot: £0.5 million
(e) New Deal for Lone Parents: £3.3 million
The figure for New Deal 25 plus includes spending on employment subsidies. The other New Deal programmes listed do not offer an employment subsidy, but the figures given include various other allowance payments.
These figures understate the total costs accrued due to time lags in billing and reimbursement.In addition, there are central running and marketing costs for each programme which have not been included in these figures.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 23 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-304 by Henry McLeish on 29 July 1999, whether it will provide updated information on the number of people who have joined the employment option of the New Deal for Young People to date; how many have left the option; of these, how many moved into unsubsidised jobs, and whether any information on the number of young people retained by the employer who took them on after completion of the six month period is now available.
Answer
Employment policy is reserved to the UK Government which takes the lead on funding and delivery of the New Deal. In Scotland it does this in partnership with the Scottish Executive and contributing Scottish organisations as indicated in the answer to question S1W-3137 also answered today.
By the end of September 3,553 had joined the employer option: of the 2,057 who had left the employer option 749 had moved into unsubsidised employment either as a result of being retained by their employers or by moving to a job with another employer. This includes people who left the New Deal from the Employment Option, and people who moved from it into Follow-through and then subsequently left the New Deal.Details of the periods spent on options and the numbers who are retained by the employer who took them on under the employer option are not available.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 23 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-302 by Henry McLeish on 29 July 1999, whether it will provide updated information on how many young people who have obtained employment through the New Deal Gateway have been taken on by employers who are not receiving a New Deal subsidy and what percentage of those taken on under the employment option this represents.
Answer
Employment policy is reserved to the UK Government which takes the lead on funding and delivery of the New Deal. In Scotland it does this in partnership with the Scottish Executive and contributing Scottish organisations as indicated in the answer to question S1W-3137 also answered today.The total number to the end of September was 7,930 and this represented 61% of those who had moved into sustained employment by that date.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 23 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-300 by Henry McLeish on 29 July 1999, whether it will provide updated information on the number of people who have joined the New Deal for Young People and on the expenditure incurred on this programme to date.
Answer
Employment policy is reserved to the UK Government which takes the lead on funding and delivery of the New Deal. In Scotland it does this in partnership with the Scottish Executive and contributing Scottish organisations as indicated in the answer to question S1W-3137 also answered today.By the end of September 39,700 had joined the programme in Scotland. Expenditure incurred to that date was approximately £34.5 million, excluding the cost of allowances where separate information on Scotland is not available. This figure understates the total costs accrued due to time lags in billing and reimbursement.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 23 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-303 by Henry McLeish on 29 July 1999, whether it will provide updated information on the number of companies which have taken on young people under the employment option of the New Deal for Young People and what percentage of trading businesses this figure represents.
Answer
Employment Policy is reserved to the UK Government which therefore takes the lead on the funding and delivery of the New Deal throughout Great Britain, although in close consultation with its partners, including the Scottish Executive. Many partner organisations at local level also provide New Deal services under contract or provide funds and other resources, including training funds to enhance the quality of New Deal in their areas. The public and voluntary sector organisations which contribute to the New Deal in this way fall within the remit of the Scottish Executive.The number of young people in Scotland who had secured sustained jobs through the programme to the end of September was 12,930 and the number of companies which had signed New Deal employer agreements was 10,094. This represents 6.7% of businesses registered for VAT and/or PAYE in Scotland. Information about the number of companies which have taken on New Deal recruits is not available.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 23 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has reviewed East Ayrshire Council's direct labour organisation in the last three months.
Answer
Under the terms of the section 19B Direction, the Scottish Executive is involved in regular contact with and monitoring of East Ayrshire Council's DLO.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 23 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-1208 by Mr Jack McConnell on 29 November 1999, whether it will provide a breakdown of the budgeted and actual costs incurred by Scotland Europa in relation to Scotland House.
Answer
The breakdown of the budgeted and actual costs incurred by Scotland Europa is a matter for Scotland Europa and its members, both private and public sector. It is not a subsidiary of the Scottish Executive.
