The New Deal (Lone Parents) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 2915

SOCIAL SECURITY

The New Deal (Lone Parents) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2001

Made

15th August 2001

Laid before Parliament

20th August 2001

Coming into force

13th September 2001

Whereas arrangements known as “the New Deal” have been made by the Secretary of State under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973(1) (“the 1973 Act”):

And whereas the New Deal includes an employment programme known as “the New Deal for Lone Parents”:

And whereas it appears to the Secretary of State that these arrangements make provision for persons using facilities provided in pursuance of them to receive payments in connection with their use of those facilities:

Now therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 26(1)(a), (c) and (d) and (2) of the Employment Act 1988(2) hereby makes the following Order—

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the New Deal (Lone Parents) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 13th September 2001.

(2) In this Order—

“the New Deal for Lone Parents” means the arrangements known by that name and made under section 2 of the 1973 Act for which only persons who are lone parents are eligible and which are designed to help participants to obtain work or to improve their prospects of obtaining work;

“lone parent” means a person who has no partner and who is responsible for, and a member of the same household as, a child or young person;

“the self-employment route” means receiving assistance in pursuing self-employed earner’s employment whilst participating in the New Deal for Lone Parents.

Treatment of payments for the purposes of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, the Jobseekers Act 1995 and specified subordinate legislation

2.—(1) The provisions of this article apply for the purposes of—

(a) Part I of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(3);

(b) the Jobseekers Act 1995(4); and

(c) the subordinate legislation specified in the Schedule to this Order.

(2) If during any period or periods commencing with or falling after the date on which this Order comes into force a person is participating in the New Deal for Lone Parents within the self-employment route and that person receives, or is eligible to receive, either a top-up payment or other payment made to him in order to assist with the expenses of participation, any such payments made to such a person during that period or those periods in connection with his use of those facilities shall be treated—

(a) for the purposes of regulation 6(1)(d) of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987(5), as a training allowance;

(b) for all other purposes, as a training premium.

Alistair Darling

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

15th August 2001

Article 2

SCHEDULE LIST OF SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION

• The Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975 (S.I. 1975/556)

• The Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1979 (S.I. 1979/597)

• The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1967)

• The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1968)

• The Income Support (Transitional) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1969)

• The Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1971)

• The Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1973)

• The Fire Precautions (Factories, Offices, Shops and Railway Premises) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/76)

• The Income Support (General) Amendment No.4 Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/1559)

• The Income Support (General) Amendment No.6 Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2334)

• The Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2887)

• The Child Support (Maintenance Assessment Procedure) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/1813)

• The Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/1814)

• The Child Support (Maintenance Assessment and Special Cases) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/1815)

• The Education Authority Bursaries (Scotland) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1739) (S. 1/9)

• The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/207)

• The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2567)

• The Social Security (Back to Work Bonus) (No.2) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2570)

• The Housing Renewal Grants Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2890)

• The Child Support (Maintenance Calculation Procedure) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2001/157)

• The Education (Student Support) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/951)

• The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1734)

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides that, for the purposes of Part I of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4) and the Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18) and of the subordinate legislation specified in the Schedule to the Order, a person using facilities provided in pursuance of the employment programme known as “the New Deal for Lone Parents self-employment route”and receiving or entitled to receive in connection with the use of those facilities a top-up payment or assistance with the expenses of participation or both shall be treated as being in receipt of a training allowance for the purposes of the remunerative work rule in income support and as in receipt of a training premium for all other purposes.

The effect of the Order is that receipt of the top-up payment and expenses by a person using those facilities does not affect his entitlement to income support or the amount of income support he is entitled to.

This Order does not impose any charge on business.

(1)

1973 c. 50: section 2 was substituted by section 25(1) of the Employment Act 1988 (c. 19).

(2)

1988 c. 19.

(3)

1992 c. 4.

(4)

1995 c. 18.

(5)

S.I. 1987/1967; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1992/468 and 1999/2556.