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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Employment Schemes: Young People (2 September 2014)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the contribution by the Minister of State for Employment of 1 September 2014, Official Report, column 16, on youth employment (support) how much funding from the youth contract wage incentive scheme has been re-allocated; and to which other areas.

Asked by:
Sir Stephen Timms (Labour)

Answer

DWP has reallocated funds, from the total £1bn Youth Contract, to focus on the hardest to help youth groups who are still finding it difficult to take up vacancies and encourage self-employment, the table below lists the additional support that is being provided from the Wage Incentive underspend since 2011.

Wage Incentive Underspend Re-allocation

Funding (£m)

Additional Jobcentre advisor resource in 20 Hotspot areas

56.0

Extension of the New Enterprise Allowance (NEA) Scheme to December 2014

35.0

Funding for BIS for New Enterprise Allowance (NEA) start-up loans

20.0

City Deals (including £5m for Scotland and Wales and £1.8m for Glasgow)

56.8

Heywood review of 16 - 21 year olds: funding to support the 16 - 17 NEET pilots and the BIS 18 - 21 Work Skills pilots

6.0

Additional funding for BIS to support young people further away from the labour market for education and training activities intended to lead initially to Traineeships or equivalent provision, and subsequently employment.

1.1

Intensive Jobcentre advisor support for disadvantaged NEETs in selected areas.

1.1

TOTAL

176.0


Answered by:
Esther McVey (Conservative)
5 September 2014

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