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-5969 also answered today.The table below shows the numbers in Scotland by Unit of Delivery currently enrolled (end-January figures) in each of the following New Deal options: (a) employment, (b) full-time education and training, (c) voluntary sector and (d) environment task force.Unit of DeliveryEmployerFull TimeEducation/TrainingVoluntarySectorEnvironmentTask ForceAyrshire19513312674Borders101252030Dumfries & Galloway74481713Edinburgh, East & Midlothian228956753Forth Valley1271113454Glasgow218416216211Grampian43672921Inverness & Nairn1324715Lanarkshire307250112187Renfrewshire54758266Tayside17911889101Western Isles2210311Dumbarton71831673Fife892224481Moray,Strathspey & Badenoch197611West Lothian35183321Argyll & the Islands18121138Caithness & Sutherland720413Lochaber1111Orkney7113Ross & Comarty172559Shetland8210Skye & Lochalsh6301 S1W-05974