Employment Schemes: Young People

(asked on 16th June 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many youth contract wage incentives he estimates will be taken up by April 2015.


Answered by
Esther McVey Portrait
Esther McVey
Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 19th June 2014

The latest information that we hold on Youth Contract Wage Incentives was published in February 2014 and can be found at the link below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/283873/youth-contract-feb14.pdf

Wage incentives are a demand-led scheme, and we have not forecast the number of wage incentives we expect to be taken up by April 2015.

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