Asked by: Margaret Greenwood (Labour - Wirral West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are participating in (a) the Work Programme and (b) Work Choice; and on what date the final participants will complete those programmes.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
Statistics on the Work Programme, including information on starts, referrals and job outcomes is published and available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/work-programme-statistics--2
Statistics on the Work Choice programme, including information on starts, referrals and job outcomes is published and available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/work-choice-statistics-number-of-starts-and-referrals--2
Asked by: Margaret Greenwood (Labour - Wirral West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding her Department allocated to Work Choices in the latest year for which figures are available.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Department for Work and Pensions spent £22.4m on Work Choices, including Remploy, in the financial year 2018/19, which is the latest full year spend is available.