Mr. Chris Kane:

I am not sure how much I can add. The Deputy asked about the 70,000. The table clearly states it was job starts. The committee asked for comparable stats. The difficulty is the comparison. It is difficult to present. The stats for each of the services are compiled differently because performance in each service is registered differently. We do not compare them across. With JobPath, what counts is somebody gets and sustains a job. We track that person through from the date he or she commences the service. Local employment services do not do that. It is much rawer in calculations.

With those tables, we were trying to present job starts. For the local employment service, jobs clubs and Employ Ability, the only thing we really record is job starts. We do not track the person or how long he or she stays in the job. That is what we do in JobPath and that is what we hope to do in the revised regional employment service. I am happy to go through the stats for JobPath if the Deputy wants.