Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many referrals were made to the Work and Health Programme in (a) 2017-18, (b) 2018-19, (c) 2019-20, (d) 2020-21 and (e) 2021-22.
The Work and Health Programme (WHP) official statistics are published on a three-monthly cycle on Gov.uk. The statistics include information on referrals, starts and job outcomes and are available here.
The programme spend is the direct spend to providers. DWP’s costs that are associated with managing performance and referrals is in addition to the table below.
Work and Health Programme | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 |
Programme Spend (£m's) | 6.7 | 46.0 | 62.9 | 75.2 |