Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much money from the public purse was paid to work programme providers in Greater Manchester in each relevant year since 2010.
The Department’s Work Programme does not have a contract covering just Greater Manchester, so the information can not be provided at the level of detail requested.
However, there is a contract covering Greater Manchester, Chester and Warrington. The expenditure on this contract is shown in the table below.
| 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 |
| £m | £m | £m | £m | £m | £m |
Greater Manchester, Chester & Warrington | 18 | 32 | 46 | 46 | 32 | 23 |
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