Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on the Group Work training course in each of the last 5 years.

Between January 2017 and March 2018, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department of Health and Social Care Joint Work and Health Unit conducted a Randomised Control Trial of Group Work. The costs of the trial can be found here: Summary: An evaluation of the Group Work/JOBS II evaluation - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

The total costs of Group Work were estimated at £3.3 million, of which £1.7 million was spent on delivering the intervention and £1.6 million on running the trial and evaluation.