The Conservative Party has accused the Government of "triple-counting" the number of 18- to 24-year-olds on the New Deal for Young People, and repeated its call for the scheme to be scrapped. In response to a written Parliamentary question, David Willetts, shadow work and pensions secretary, was told that 909,230 young people had started the New Deal since it began in 1998. A spokesman for the Conservative Party said the data showed young people are counted as different individuals each time they return to the scheme. Only 674,000 of the young people started the programme just once. Willetts also used...