Department for Work and Pensions: Career Development
(asked on 21st January 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total cost was of centrally provided career coaching, career transition, or redeployment support accessed by Department for Work and Pensions staff in each calendar quarter from Q1 2023 to the most recent quarter for which data is available.
The table below covers the period from April 2023 to December 2025 for spend relating to centrally provided career coaching, career transition, or redeployment support accessed by DWP employees and March 2023 to August 2025 for spend relating to centrally provided career coaching within Talent, accessed by DWP employees.
| Centrally provided career coaching, transition, or redeployment support | Career coaching within Talent |
2023 | £199,180.38 | £206,253 |
|
| £51,563 |
Qtr2 | £63,105.19 | £51,563 |
Qtr3 | £71,485.00 | £51,563 |
Qtr4 | £64,590.19 | £51,563 |
2024 | £194,180.33 | £161,091 |
Qtr1 | £47,143.19 | £161,091 |
Qtr2 | £40,658.19 | £0 |
Qtr3 | £38,085.63 | £0 |
Qtr4 | £68,293.32 | £0 |
2025 | £165,239.03 | £127,948 |
Qtr1 | £51,671.17 | £0 |
Qtr2 | £42,873.93 | £127,948 |
Qtr3 | £34,781.93 | £0 |
Qtr4 | £35,912.00 | £0 |
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Total Spend | £558,599.74 | £495,292.00 |
* For the Leaders Like You programme in Year 1 (2023), payments to Ernst & Young were made monthly. For ease of presentation, the 2023 figures are shown quarterly in the table. From 2024 the payment changed from monthly to a single annual invoice.