AQW 49086/11-16

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 24/09/2015
Answered On Date: 08/10/2015
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Employment and Learning to detail the number of groups, whose client groups included those with ill mental health, learning and physical disabilities, lone parents and disadvantaged young people, that applied to the latest European Social Fund and were unsuccessful.

Answer:

The total number of organisations that applied to the ESF 2014-2020 Programme, but were unsuccessful, was 69. These organisations can be broken down according to the following strands of the ESF 2014-2020 Programme to which they applied:

Community and Family Support:4

Disability:9

Unemployed and Economically Inactive:27

Not in Employment, Education or Training:29

Many of these organisations have multiple client groups. Of these 69 organisations, the Department has been able to ascertain that 23 have a client group with mental health issues; 36 have a client group with learning/physical disabilities; 24 have a client group of lone parents; and 46 have a client group of disadvantaged young people.