Future Jobs Fund
Work and Pensions
Written answers and statements, 3 November 2009
Jeremy Hunt (Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Culture, Media and Sport; South West Surrey, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many bids for funding from the Future Jobs Fund have been received from organisations in the (a) culture, music and creative industries and (b) sports and media industries; and how much such organisations have received funding from the fund.
Jim Knight (Minister of State (the South West), Regional Affairs; South Dorset, Labour)
holding answer
The Department for Work and Pensions does not have a detailed breakdown of the sectors that the bids seek to create jobs in. The list of successful bidders to the Future Jobs Fund is available on our website at
www.dwp.gov.uk/futurejobsfund.
Many of these bids are from partnerships who plan to create jobs with a variety of organisations, in different sectors. The Football League Trust and the National Skills Academy for Sport led bid will be creating Future Jobs Fund jobs primarily in the sports sector.
Information on the levels of funding awarded is not publicly available as this is commercially confidential.