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 millionThe figure for New Deal 25 plus includes spending on employment subsidies.