European Social Fund
(asked on 24th April 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many successful applicants to the European Social Fund left the programme early in each region of the UK in the latest period for which information is available.
European Social Fund (ESF) programmes are administered in the UK by designated managing authorities. These are the Department for Work and Pensions for England, and the Devolved Administrations and HM Government of Gibraltar outside of England.
To date managing authorities have had the following number of applicants withdraw from 2014-20 ESF projects before completion:
| Number of applicants who withdrew from projects before completion |
England | 3 |
Wales | 0 |
Scotland | 3 |
Northern Ireland | 5 |
Gibraltar | 0 |
The above figures refer to applicants for funding who are managing ESF projects, rather than individual participants in individual projects.