Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people left the Intensive Personalised Employment Support programme as a result of entering employment in each of the last five calendar years.

The Intensive Personalised Employment Support (IPES) programme provides support for disabled people with complex barriers to work. Participants receive up to fifteen months of intensive pre-employment support and six months of intensive in-work support when they start work.

When participants enter employment, they continue to receive support from their IPES provider and do not leave the programme. Support will usually end when the participant achieves a higher threshold outcome.

Referrals to the IPES programme started in December 2019. There were 50 higher threshold employment outcomes in the year ending December 2020, 580 higher threshold employment outcomes in the year ending December 2021, and 820 higher threshold, employment outcomes up until November 2022.