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Written question asked by Lord Grayling (Conservative) on Thursday, 15 November 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 19 November 2007. It was answered by Caroline Flint (Labour) on Monday, 17 December 2007 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.

New Deal for Musicians

Question
(2) how many people have left the new deal for musicians and (a) gone into sustained employment, (b) gone into employment, (c) returned to or continued receiving benefit payments immediately on leaving, (d) returned to benefit payments within six months and (e) returned to benefit payments within one year.
Answer

New deal for musicians (NDfM) aims to help aspiring unemployed musicians into a sustainable career in the music industry, either as artists under contract or unsupported self-employed artists within the music industry.New deal for musicians is delivered as part of the mainstream new deal for young people and new deal 25 plus programmes; participant numbers and job outcomes for new deal for musicians are now incorporated into statistics for these mainstream programmes.The available information on the number of people who have entered new deal for musicians in each year is in the following table.

Number of participants in new deal for musicians
Total in year (£)
1999 1,515
2000 3,484
2001 4,015
2002 2,859
2003 (Up to 28 August 2003) 1,590
Total 13,463
Source:
New deal for musicians database.

Separate information on the number of people who have left new deal for musicians to employment is only available up to November 2005 and only available for those leaving to sustained jobs. Up to the end of November 2005, 3,880¹ people had left the programme to sustained employment.The remaining requested information is not available."¹ Source:""New deal evaluation database, DWP information directorate"

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
469 c937W; 166610
Session
2007-08
Subjects
New deal schemes Musicians
Link
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