Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new staff have been recruited to work on the Access to Work programme in each of the last six months for which data is available; and whether his Department plans to recruit more staff to work on this programme.
Access to Work have deployed an additional 101 staff through recruitment and redeployment from other DWP departments since October 2022.
Month | Recruited/redeployed |
October 2022 | 11 |
November 2022 | 1 |
December 2022 | 0 |
January 2023 | 29 |
February 2023 | 56 |
March 2023 | 4 |
A further 51 people will be joining in April/May from a recent recruitment exercise.