Mark Hoban
Shadow Minister (Treasury)
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what percentage of leavers from New Deal for Lone Parents recommenced claiming benefits within 12 months of leaving the programme in each year since it began.
Jim Murphy
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) (Work)
The information is in the following table:
| Percentage of leavers from New Deal for Lone Parents who recommenced claiming benefits within 12 months of leaving the programme | |
| Percentage | |
| 1998 | 19 |
| 1999 | 19 |
| 2000 | 19 |
| 2001 | 19 |
| 2002 | 21 |
| 2003 | 20 |
| 2004 | 19 |
| 2005 | 19 |
| Notes: 1. New Deal for Lone Parents was launched nationally in October 1998. 2. Latest benefit data are to May 2006, therefore, allowing for a 12-month gap, only New Deal leavers to May 2005 are included. 3. The benefits included are bereavement benefit, incapacity benefit, invalid care allowance, income support, jobseeker's allowance, severe disablement allowance and widows benefit. 4. A benefit claim has only been included if it is a new claim after leaving the New Deal spell. People can leave New Deal and continue a benefit claim; these people are not included as recommencing a claim to benefit. Source: Information Directorate, Department for Work and Pensions. | |
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