Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department's Employment Data Lab evaluates (a) jobcentres and (b) his Department's employment services.

The Employment Data Lab is an external-facing service designed to evaluate employment support provided by external organisations and to share the findings publicly. The service does not evaluate jobcentres or the Department’s employment services and DWP’s wider approach to evaluation is set out in its Evaluation Strategy published on gov.uk (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-evaluation-strategy/dwp-evaluation-strategy). Further information can be found on the Employment Data Lab webpages on gov.uk (www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-data-lab).