Employment Schemes: Young People

(asked on 8th December 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 have been paid to businesses based in (a) London, (b) Manchester and (c) Birmingham to date.


Answered by
Esther McVey Portrait
Esther McVey
Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 11th December 2014

Data collected on Wage Incentive payments does not lend itself to be broken down to the requested cities levels, with the exception of London.

The following table shows the different Wage Incentive payments paid to employers in London between June 2012 and May 2014:

8 week
interim claims

Balance payment between 14 & 25 weeks

Balance of
18 weeks

26 week
full payment

300

60

110

430

Notes: Values are rounded to the nearest 10

The data are split by 26 week full payments, 8 week interim payments (for smaller employers), 18 week balance payments (remaining balance following an 8 week interim payment), and payments between 14 and 25 weeks (if an employee leaves work after 13 weeks, but before completing the 26 weeks).

Data on Wage Incentives is routinely published as part of the Youth Contract statistical series. The latest publication is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/pre-work-programme-and-get-britain-working#youth-contract

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