Universal Credit

(asked on 14th May 2018) - View Source
Questioner
Lord Field of Birkenhead Portrait
Lord Field of Birkenhead
(Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many work coaches have been allocated within her department to assist universal credit claimants in each month of the last three years for which data is available.

Answered by
Alok Sharma Portrait
Alok Sharma
COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 17th May 2018

The requested data below is derived from the DWP’s Activity Based Model (ABM) and/or Departmental Activity Based Model (DABM) and is unpublished management information which is collected for internal DWP use only. The Models are validated at the financial year end and the data provided for 2017/18 is provisional.

Month

Apr 15

May 15

Jun 15

Jul 15

Aug 15

Sep 15

Oct 15

Nov 15

Dec 15

Jan 16

Feb 16

Mar 16

Work Coach FTE*

524

623

728

837

908

1,009

1,169

1,337

1,487

1,621

1,879

2,084

Month

Apr 16

May 16

Jun 16

Jul 16

Aug 16

Sep 16

Oct 16

Nov 16

Dec 16

Jan 17

Feb 17

Mar 17

Work Coach FTE*

2,274

2,408

2,518

2,576

2,711

2,815

2,993

3,110

3,243

3,321

3,412

3,520

Month

Apr 17

May 17

Jun 17

Jul 17

Aug 17

Sep 17

Oct 17

Nov 17

Dec 17

Jan 18

Feb 18

Mar 18

Work Coach FTE*

3,701

3,703

3,814

4,017

4,133

4,205

4,389

4,566

4,992

5,124

5,200

5,313

Notes:

  1. * FTE: Full Time Equivalent
  2. The actual levels of deployment to roles including work coach is measured by manual inputs to the ABM system, indicating a % distribution of an individual’s time across a number of activity labels.
  3. The table below shows the FTE recorded in ABM against the various activity names associated with “work coach”, but not including “assistant work coach”.
  4. A like for like comparison across years should not be attempted, given that the work coach role and the ABM definitions which defined work coach activity and processes at any given time will have changed quite significantly over time. As a result, some FTE captured against activity codes which are now deemed to be obsolete are excluded from the ABM system, meaning that these figures may be slightly lower than previously published work coach FTE figures.
  5. This data is not deemed a National Statistic by the UK Statistics Authority.
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