Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 19 May 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
(1) what estimate he has made of the number of people likely to take up the additional support provided through (a) incentives to employees to recruit and train unemployed people, (b) training places, (c) work-focused volunteering and (d) help to establish a business under the six month offer to the unemployed;
(2) what level of take up of the six month offer he anticipates in respect of (a) employment subsidy vouchers, (b) train to gain funding, (c) training places, (d) volunteering and (e) help for the self-employed under the six month offer.
We have anticipated and funded the six month offer for the provision of 500,000 opportunities for jobseekers who have been claiming jobseeker's allowance for 26 weeks or more for two years from April 2009 to March 2011.
The offers are voluntary and are therefore demand led. The overall package is designed to be flexible and respond to customer needs. It is also possible that for any individual customer, a mix of offers may be appropriate.
The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills expects to provide 75,000 new work focused training opportunities over two years. The volunteering offer expects to provide 40,000 opportunities over this same period.
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