Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total cost of the Kickstart Scheme has been for her Department as of 27 January 2022.

The National Audit Office (NAO) report on the Kickstart Scheme was published in November 2021. This report contains details on spend as of the end of September 2021. You can access the NAO report here.

Information relating to Kickstart grants will be published by the Cabinet Office on the Government website in due course, as is standard practice for all Government general grants. This can be viewed here.

To note, this information is normally published approximately a year after the financial year end and includes grant value and recipients.