Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the policy paper entitled Transforming Support: The Health and Disability White Paper published on 15 March 2023, when the pilots designed to test the effectiveness of the Adjustment Passport with (a) disabled people leaving educational training and vocational programmes, (b) armed forced service leavers moving into civilian employment and (c) contractors and freelancers are due to begin; what the duration of those pilots will be; and how many people will be included in the pilots.

The Adjustments Passport was developed with stakeholders to support transitions into employment. Several pilots are being delivered to test the effectiveness of the passport, including students leaving university and jobseekers moving into work. The use of the Adjustments Passport is voluntary and, therefore, no minimum numbers have been set for the pilots. All the pilots build on the successful delivery of the Health Adjustment Passport pilot delivered in Jobcentre Plus in 2021, which has been rolled out across Jobcentres and is available online at gov.uk. (Health Adjustment Passport - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)).

To test the transition from education into employment, a pilot was delivered in universities for a period of 12 months from November 2021 with around 250 disabled students in total, and a further pilot to support disabled people leaving educational training and vocational programmes commenced in February 2023 and is expected to last for a period of 12 months.

To support the contractors and freelancers receiving Access to Work, a flexible application was launched in May 2021 alongside a 12-month Adjustments Passport pilot for contractors and freelancers; around 10 people took part in the pilot. The information from this pilot is being reviewed to inform future testing for contractors and freelancers. And to support service leavers with the transition from the armed forces into civilian employment, the Service Leavers Adjustment Passport is being developed with more information expected early in Summer 2023.